Wonderful character development!

It is a performances centric movie

Absolutely Fantastic

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

If you catch this movie on TV or better yet go out and find it, you will not be disappointed.Every performance is brilliant. Kip Pardue is not just a pretty face, and gives a tortured, haunting performance. Bonnie Hunt shows what range she has, I wish she had more chance to do films like this, rather than Cheaper By The Dozen (though I'm sure she had her reason's). I'd fallen in love with Michael Kelly by the end, he is totally perfect throughout the entire film, and so different than in Dawn Of The Dead, what a great actor! The film is handled maturely, direction is sound, all performances stunning, as I said, the 3 story lines set over 3 years get wound together neatly, so many of these types of narrative threads feel contrived.All in all a beautiful film, that doesn't need to whack home the gay card. It's intelligent, subtle, gentle, intriguing, tender, and terribly sad.

I think the title was very deceptive. Imagine bringing it home for a bunch of 10 yr olds thinking it was a movie about saving turtles and finding out it is a movie that is meant to arouse sympathy for gays and their fight against AIDS. In addition, all the straight men in the film were portrayed in an unflattering manner. The preacher was a stiff intolerant, unaware dolt. The Kure Beach cop (I know most of them and they're great guys) was a nasty bastard. The Marine from camp LeJuene was a thief. However, the two gay guys were caring, intelligent, sensitive, loving, wonderful human beings.In the movies extras, I think its Kip Pardue that states Kure Beach is full of misfits and outcasts. Holy moly where did he get that from? Its a great town full of wonderful folks. But then he perhaps is comparing them to the Hollyweird types that think its normal for two males to make out and hug and kiss under the town fishing pier.

I just saw this movie at a screening with the producer in Louisville, Kentucky. It was wonderful. I was skeptical about going because I really didn't know anything about it but decided he what the heck. I really liked that Bonnie Hunt played a serious character (the producer said that's why her agent wanted her to do this low budget film). Also, I enjoyed Kip Pardue (Sunshine from Remember the Titans) because he was nice to look at and was more than a pretty face as in other movies. You had to think about what was being said and what was happening to connect it but it was satisfying to think "Oh so that's what that means." I plan on buying the DVD next month!

This is a beautiful, tightly written movie about three families and how they intersect. Its primary topic is adoption, and the quest of a birth mother to find her child (Mark) who she had given away for adoption. The three families are the child himself, now in his 20's, his birth mother, and the family who adopted him. It takes place in North Carolina with breathtaking views of the ocean and mountains of that state.Homosexuality plays an important role in the film. Mark, who is HIV positive, was totally rejected by his father, a homophobic fundamentalist minister. He becomes a wanderer, and feels rejected and unloved. After he leaves home, he is befriended by a local, and connects with him. But above all, it's a wonderful story full of human emotions, of longing, and resolution. And unlike similar movies with different plot lines that converge, the plots here were all intelligible, coherent, and held your interest to the end. The acting and cinematography were superb. The loggerheads refer to sea turtles, and have metaphorical implications. The movie stays with you after you leave, and is well worth seeing.