Show don’t tell. Amazing
A phenomenal movie I loved everything about it in my perspective. I love movies that make me cry for 30 minutes and this was the right movie to watch it was such a heartfelt movie on how Dani and Court meet in a pond and they go there almost everyday together and in the movie I got so mad when Court went out with Maureen, Dani’s older sister and when Dani didn’t get to see him before he Died that made me cry so hard. And all I could think of in the end was that if Maureen never came home that night with the groceries Court would have never spent the night with her outside Court would have never leaned over to grab his hat and he would have never fell off that tractor and died so from now on I hate Maureen so much and she should have stuck to sister code and never got involved with Dani and Court that is what I think of the movie.
Ah, Reese Witherspoon' breakout movie. Really good.
Review by J.T.VIP 8BlockedParent2018-07-08T02:39:31Z
I have been a big Reese fan for years now but had never heard of this movie until I found it while making a Reece list. I was stunned. What a phenomenal acting performance put in by such a young woman on her first movie. She was outstanding. Unfortunately, the story/script is the weak point of the movie. Besides the budding love affair between Dani and Court and the awkward tryst with Maureen joining the action, there is not much going on here. I thoroughly enjoyed the on-screen time the young couple shared. From the first scene at the watering hole where instead of being a shy nude 14 year old, she chews Court out telling him unless his name is Foster, he better be leaving. The usual cheese factor had to enter the movie. It seems to be required. When Dani leaves for her late night rendezvous at the pond to meet Court, the out of nowhere storm brews up and her mother's "spider sense" starts tingling and she has to run outside in the storm to find her overly independent daughter when she takes a bad fall and receives a concussion so we are forced to worry whether she will lose the baby. Somehow, the bump on the head led to instant toxemia. Medical miracle I say. One of the final scenes where Dani goes fishing with her old man and we finally get to see some of that daddy wisdom when he advises her that her sister is for life and probably needs her more than ever was actually done very nicely. Sam Waterston added a nice touch here in his pre-Law & Order days. I have to say this movie comes highly recommended. Try to look past the slightly thin story and just enjoy the rising star that was Reese Witherspoon.