A short, and a sound one. The party matters less than the sister.
The review
Elsa overreaches for Anna's day and unravels, and the day is saved by the people who do not need the spectacle. That is the right size for a short. It does not reopen the whole kingdom's theology. It says a sister is not a performance.
Fifteen minutes is the correct ambition. Watch it between larger things. If a child only remembers the song, sing the song and then set the table yourselves.
Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.
The review
A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.
Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.
