Movie Review Essays

The film It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a coming of age feature, with a highly relatable plotline for teens. It centers around a teenage boy, who struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide. He feels mentally overwhelmed in his life between friends, family and school. One early morning …

Girl Interrupted is a movie directed by James Mangold. Mental illness is a serious issue, that is portrayed in this film. It harps on the struggles of mental illness between teenage women. Susanna Kaysen, an 18 year old teenage girl was instated into a psychiatric center known as Claymoore after …

The Candidate starts with the campaign manager, Marvis Lucas, going to California so he can select Bill Mckay as the Democratic senator. Because there was an open Senate seat against incumbent Crocker Jarmon, they decided to choose Bill Mckay. Bill dislikes anything to do with politics, so Lucas persuades him …

Upon first trying to relate it to the sass’s, I actually thought the elm was pretty modern and could be possible in today’s times, depending on a store and its’ management, whether an independently owned little store or a big box grocery store. The main character, Sammy, who displays an …

This caused a major shift from the rigid ways of the caste system and ewe classes seemed to emerge propelled by financial power. The beliefs that had dominated society for hundreds of years underwent dynamic changes and many superstitions and myths were exposed. Despite the fundamental changes that swept the …

Here comes trouble. 1. If you want to see a grown man cry, make him watch ‘Marble and Me’. It is based on a true story, a best-selling memoir by John Groan. The whole movie is hilarious but the ending will bring even your grumpy, old uncle to tears. 2. …

Without money and wife, Chris is totally committed to his son Christopher. Will Smith portrays Chris Gardner, a character who has strong wisdom as a single father and desperately wants to do right without complaints and his only hope is drifting away when everything meaningful falls apart at the same …

The government with thoughts of a possible attack on the US, summons leading experts in the field to access the situation. After some debriefings, the overspent decides that this was not an attack and simply brushes the situation over. Dry. Joshua Keyes, a geology professor, is unsettled with natural occurrences …

I could recommend this film to others, but I will say it was not the most eventful film or one that is easy to sit through. I do, however, think it successfully portrays the characters and illustrates one depiction of Mozart life. One of the first scenes Mozart appears in, …

Barefoot is a small coastal port city that was established in 1722. Theme The major theme of The Walk to Remember is to follow your heart because London felt lost when he found out Jamie had cancer but all he had to do was listen to his heart to find …