A Painted House
A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.
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- Cast：
- Scott Glenn , Arija Bareikis , Robert Sean Leonard , Melinda Dillon , Logan Lerman , Audrey Marie Anderson , Geoffrey Lewis
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Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Great Film overall
The acting in this movie is really good.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Maybe sometimes, we forget, with our plush life and current definition of "poverty", what things were like for rural "working poor" even as recently as the 50's. Survival, even for a man who owned the land, took a different strength of character. Is it good, or is it regretful those times have passed? More money yes, but were better times up North in the auto plants? I suppose, but this is nostalgia, and not bad either.It was a good family movie, narrated like the Waltons, I kept waiting for "goodnight Luke-boy". Yah, Little House on the Prairie too, a bit more reality, but did other commenters really expect this to be as complete as the book, any book? Personally, I'm tired of hearing book-readers whine about "what they left out". Don't watch movies if you read the book. This is certainly wandering reminiscences, but that's another type of literature too, isn't it? Why does every story have to be going somewhere special? To me it's a pretty good coming of age movie and worth the hour and a half at least, and always a pleasure watching Scott Glenn, when he gets good parts.
*MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*"A Painted House" was a very well done movie. I saw it on CBS last week and found it to be very enjoyable. I read the book last year in school for a book report and found this to be a good adaptation of it. The acting was very well done, the scenery was good, and the music was very good. I just wish that the movie followed the exact outline of the book, which was a very good novel. Somethings were different between the two but, then again you can't fit everything into a two hour movie. Overall I think this a very good movie and give it 9/10 stars. Everyone should watch it if they get a chance.
This movie had potential describing a southern family with a young boy at the center of it. I was disappointed in how the movie ended, because it did not leave the viewers with a sense of completion which I would expect out of a Hallmark movie.
Overall, it was an ok made for t.v movie. The acting was good, and there was nothing particularly wrong with the cinematography. The only problem was the story line. It goes from here to there with nothing to tie it together in between. The movie also comes with a rather un-satisfying ending. But if you are at home one night with nothing else to do it is an enjoyable-enough two hours.
