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Film · Columbia · 1979

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Kramer vs. Kramer

75Worth an evening.

Watch the breakfasts before you start arguing about the court.

The review

Breakfast is the film. A mother leaves, and a father who had been a distracted career man has to learn the morning with his son, including the parts he used to leave to the marriage. Then she comes back, and a court decides who keeps the child. The law is the second half. You feel both hours, the kitchen and the hearing, and neither one is a subplot.

Watch it with anyone who has ever ranked a job above a Tuesday. He is not a saint for learning breakfast. She is not a cartoon for leaving. The child is the life in the room, not a prop the adults pass while they make speeches. If the film is honest with you, a parent who can do the morning is what stays. That is smaller than a verdict and harder to fake.

Journal

Keep Kramer vs. Kramer in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Consider this

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 75

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 75. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

8
Industry
A career man has to learn the actual work of a morning with his son.
10
Household
A mother, a father, and the child between them are the life of the film.
6
Piety
He is late, but he changes, and the change is the morning he used to skip.
7
Courage
Both parents risk the child in court after the leaving and the return.
8
Republic
The court, not a private mood, decides who keeps the child.
7
Temperance
He has to set the distracted career aside long enough to learn breakfast.
7
Truth
She leaves, she returns, and the hearing will not let either story stay private.
7
Stewardship
A parent who can do the morning is what the child may still have.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 75

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.