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Film · Biograph · 1912

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The New York Hat

66Worth an evening.

The hat was a mother's kindness, and the town's gossip is what hurts.

The review

Mary Pickford is the girl, and the hat was never the problem. Griffith, Biograph, 1912, a reel Anita Loos wrote. A minister buys her that hat with money her dead mother left for the kindness. The town gossips. A house can watch it. The hat is innocent. The talk is the harm. I have seen smaller gifts turned into a story, and a short doesn't make that harmless.

A mother's money gets spent the way she meant. He does the kindness. The town does the damage. It is not a feature, and gossip doesn't get wiser because the picture is brief. If you watch it, ask who was hurt, the hat or the talk, and don't accept a dodge. The woman who is gone already paid. The living owed her quiet. I was annoyed enough to say so.

Journal

Keep The New York Hat in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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

The Sound of Music

78 instead of 66

The Sound of Music is still a drama film, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is courage: They walk out rather than wear the armband.

The eight

4
Industry
The errand is a purchase made with money already left for it.
8
Household
A dead mother left money so her girl could receive that kindness.
7
Piety
A minister carries out the mother's wish while the town prefers gossip.
5
Courage
He buys the hat, and the gossip afterward is the risk that shows.
7
Republic
The town owes the girl better than talk, and the talk is the harm.
7
Temperance
The hat is innocent; what the town cannot quit is the gossip.
8
Truth
Her money was meant for the hat, and the gossip tells a worse story.
7
Stewardship
He uses the dead mother's money for the kindness she left it for.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.