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GOOD DEAL AT FAMILY VIDEO

A VHS tape for $1.50 - not bad. I bought Lake Boat, a movie with which I am totally unfamiliar but Ebert and Roper gave it two thumbs up. I think it is one of those quiet movies such as The Whales of August with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish and Vincent Price - all in their twilight years at a summer cottage in Maine. At least I think it was Maine.

I believe it was in that movie that Davis' character says, "Life surprises you; it always does." I just realized when Bette Davis said lines, they came out longer than they were written. That quote really should be, "Life . . . suprises . . . you; it allllllways . . . does."

But, anyway, I will take a flyer on this movie, Lake Boat, and maybe it will turn out to be one of my favorites.

The kids rented "Eight Below," which I simply will not watch, because it is one of those movies that breaks your heart and then says to never mind, everything has worked out okay.

You know, I don't understand why they do that in kid's movies. The rule seems to be you have to cry before the movie ends. Some folks here got me to watch "Homeward Bound" and I burst into tears when the old dog Shadow fell in the hole and couldn't get out and told them to go on without him. At least, I think that is how it went - I left the room at that point and never watched again. They thought it was funny and for a long time threatened me with having to watch it again, or retold the tale of the hole fall in the saddest tones they could muster.

posted by Jody @ 7:08 PM