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Release Date: 08 August, 2000 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Here On Earth Reviews
Good Lee Lee Movie
I haven't read the book and I almost wish I would've before watching the movie. It was a good movie though it's directed more to a younger audience. Nevertheless, if you're not that young you're bound to flashback to a time when love was so good it hurt and it was sweet, innocent, and pure.
Josh Hartnett and Chris Klein are incredibly breathtaking in this movie. They are two visually agreeable young men with whom I have no problem looking at when a scene demands that they not wear clothing.
Lee Lee Sobeiski does well in this lead role. She's portrayed as a young unspoiled and carefree young lady who's into poetry and love. She looks so "innocently gorgeous" in this movie where I could've sworn I could see a faint golden light radiate from her face and actually seep through her persona. She's awesome. Although, I did question her acting at times. She seemed to mumble her lines more than actually say them with emotion. She meets up with Klein's character almost by a tragic accident when he's forced to live in a town where his "rich" kind isn't welcomed. He's got tension with Harnett's character because after all he is charming the pants off his girlfriend (Sobeiski). I thought it was a great story! Whose heart hasn't been torn in half by the possibility of loving two people at the same time? The ending is very sad. But, it's clear to everyone that a love so great can never be pushed away no matter how much it hurts it's needed.
They kept mentioning a poet throughout the movie of which I would like get a hold of his poetry. It's simply beautiful. You'll hear his poems mentioned from beginning to end. My favorite quote said something like this "Wouldn't you like to leave Earth for a couple of moments and then return to start all over again?" Yes, I would.
This movie hits all of the passion that we felt and had as teenagers. Pure innocent love hitting you directly in your heart. Sobeiski, Hartnett, and Klein show us that "love" being such a difficult and confusing emotion can truly be immortalized on screen.
A romantic tale
Perhaps I am a softie or a romantic, but I can't agree with many who pan this film. It is far from the greatest of films, but it was touching in many ways. It is rather formulaic, but the formula works here for the most part. A rich upstart teenager comes into a small town and manages to get into a fight with a local and burn down the local diner. In a made-for-television kind of Solomonic wisdom, the judge sentences them to work together to rebuild the diner, Mabel's Table, the 'hot spot' of this whistle-stop town. Rich out-of-towner and local boy fight over the local girl, who has a tragic secret she is concealing.
Leelee Sobieski, plays the lead as Samantha, the local girl track star whose knee gave out, jeopardising her chance to go to college. Chris Klein plays Kelley, the spoiled rich kid who is nonetheless intelligent and has a heart he begins to discover during his time in the small town. Josh Hartnett is Jasper, the local boy who wants nothing more than to keep things the way they are, including his relationship with Samantha. Most of these performances are servicable without being stellar; they are typical romantic B-film fare, with many long, ponderous glances overlooking scenic views, and silly situations in which everyday life is shown.
The action is slow, but then, it isn't meant to be a fast-paced film. Samantha is torn between the comfortable sameness of her life in the small town with Jasper and her family, and the attraction that rich 'bad boy' Kelley represents, particularly after she learns he does have a heart. Samantha overhears Kelley reciting the valedictory speech he was prevented from delivering because of his sentence to build the diner; Kelley in the end does get to the deliver the speech, under different circumstances.
Jasper and Kelley fight (both verbally and physically) over the affections of Samantha, but when Samantha falls ill, they are able to put this aside for her sake. The diner is rebuilt, the town is restored to wholeness, but the situation with Jasper, Kelley and Samantha enters a new dimension, as fate has a different ending in store that none of them anticipated at the beginning of the summer.
The other actors in the film are really background for the tale - few stand out, but one who does is Annette O'Toole, who plays Samantha's mother, a role very similar to the one she takes up on 'Smallville' as Clark Kent's mother.
The story is gentle, sad, poignant - not terribly original, but very understandable in human terms. Love is unpredictable, and love often hurts. Love sometimes requires a sacrifice. Love can transform you. These are all themes that come across in the film, if not always terribly successfully.
It is a film worth watching, though.
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