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Film · Prime Video · 2008

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The Secret of Moonacre

50Watch it awake.

A feud is the curse. Fine for a child who likes a gloomy manor. Not a great one.

The review

Maria is an orphan with a book and a valley that two houses have agreed to hate across. The magic is costume and moonlight more than moral force, and the film is softer and sillier than the feud deserves. Still, the shape is the right shape for a children's fantasy: the child is not asked to pick a side of a stupid war. She is asked to stop it.

Watch it as a rainy-day picture, then say the plain version. Most curses in a family are just stories the adults refuse to drop.

Journal

Keep The Secret of Moonacre in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

63 instead of 50

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is still a family film, and it scores 63 instead of 50. What you gain is temperance: Appetite is the sin, demonstrated four times.

The eight

4
Industry
A manor, a quest.
6
Household
An orphan and two stubborn houses.
3
Piety
Moon magic.
6
Courage
She walks into the feud.
5
Republic
A valley harmed by a private war.
5
Temperance
Gentle peril.
5
Truth
The feud is shown as vain.
6
Stewardship
The heirloom is refusing the inherited fight.

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Film · Prime Video · 1999

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10 Things I Hate About You

50Watch it awake.

The bet is the sin. The poem is the repair. Older teens, with the bet named.

The review

Someone is paid to take the difficult sister out so the younger one can be dated. That is a use of a person, and the film knows it before it decides to be charming about it. Kat is not a problem to be solved. She is a girl with a standard, some of it pride and some of it sense. The poem works because it is specific and public and ashamed. A romance that ends on a confession is better than one that ends on a wink.

The Shakespeare underneath is a harsh play. This softens it into a high school, which is a mercy, and keeps the money, which is the part you have to say out loud so a teenager does not learn that being purchased is a meet-cute.

Journal

Keep 10 Things I Hate About You in the record.