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अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.
- पुरस्कार
- 3 कुल नामांकन
William Petersen
- Russell
- (as William L. Petersen)
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क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाDebut theatrical feature film of cast members Alex English and Joshua Zuehlke. Alex English, the all-star forward for the Denver Nuggets and the National Basketball Association's leading scorer of the 1980's, made his acting debut as Amazing Grace Smith, a character much like himself-sensitive, introspective, highly principled - who decides his moral convictions are stronger than his desire to be a great player. Joshua Zuehlke, a seventh grade star Little League pitcher from Minnesota, made his acting debut as Chuck Murdock, a young man who abruptly leaves childhood behind when he courageously makes a very adult decision.
- भाव
Title Card: [Last Lines, before the credits] But wouldn't it be nice?- Amazing Grace Smith
- साउंडट्रैकChuck's Lament (A Child's Dream)
Composed & Produced by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash & Joe Vitale
Performed by Crosby Stills & Nash
फीचर्ड रिव्यू
For the young in spirit and who never let their own inner child die when they grow up, "Amazing Grace and Chuck" might offer the chance of
going back to a simpler period of life where understanding the world of adults and their interference on children's world was the only problem to ever exist. Sadly, I coudn't bring my inner child back with this film - but I tried. I simply couldn't connect with some of its ideas, highly
noble and interesting as they were, neither could put behind some of the film's problems, both with its message, simplistic presentation and some
darkness that shouldn't exist halfway through the story. As a dream scenario of a world of positive possibilities, it's a little hard to not reflect
with seriousness about everything shown, the grown-up's world speaks higher in this children't tale.
It tells us about Chuck (Joshua Zuehlke), a pitcher from a little league of baseball who refuses to play games after visiting a nuclear missile silo and how they could vaporize everyone in an attack scenario. It was the Cold War days and Hollywood had a bunch of plausible reflections in the 1980's about what would happened if the doomsday was to come - all dark but better films. Chuck is right with his idealism, as it relates with the pointlessness of it all - why bother playing games if the world might come to an end? He doesn't say those things, but we have time to pause and think them all, accept what he's doing and embrace his utopic ideas that the world needs a change.
And when the news of Chuck's pacific protest hits the media, it attracts the attention of Amazing Grace (Alex English), a successful basketball player at the peak of his game who decides to join Chuck's movement, attracting plenty of famous followers but also some downer reactions from the boy's father (William Petersen) who's a jet fighter pilot; a gun lobbyst (Lee Richardson), and tinfoil Americans who think this new age group are siding with Communists. The game changer in this scenario is the American president (Gregory Peck), who's prepared to enter negotiations with the Soviets, but finds time to understand what Chuck is doing.
David Field's script seems something as if taken out of the blue, but it's not. It happened before in reality, in 1982, with 10-year-old girl Samantha Smith, who wrote a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov questioning about the tense relations of Soviet Union and U. S., then he replied back and invited her to visit the country and she went there, becoming a little ambassador between both nations. But it's easy to understand why he didn't want to revisit that real story because it'd end on a sad downer note (she passed away in 1985, on a plane crash in America) and without a closure about the two powers situation. Yet, for all the dreamers in the world who thought this kind of film wouldn't resonate on anything, you're wrong. It's not often discussed (or remembered) but a month after its release, Reagan and Gorbachev reached an effective agreement related with the arms race and a cooperative plan was made.
Directly or not, it opened up the discussion and for that it's a quite noble and valid effort, showing that some apparently ridiculous ideas can work.
For that last matter and the impecable work from the cast, I salute this film. The young Joshua Zuehlke was never on screen again and it's a pity. A cute but sorry face that express a series of emotions, all the needed ones as he saddens about the world he lives in, doesn't understand why things are so complicated and that forces him to not enjoy what he likes doing and does best: play baseball. His interactions with the player offer a more colorful view on things, now that he has new friends; but it's the scene with his dad complaining about his actvisim that is the most moving moment. He doesn't say a word, and you can feel that the boy is painfully sad about everyone, and mostly sad with himself. Mr. Gregory Peck is highly honorable and effective as the American president and no one could have done a masterful job in this role; and Jamie Lee Curtis has some nice dramatic moments as Amazing's manager.
However, I couldn't bring myself totally to it. The transition between sequences is erratic, jumpy and a little confusing; and by that time a tragedy occurs it's impact revolts us instead of leaving us sad; and some dialogues doesn't work all too good - at times it's hard to figure who are the characters exactly, or even the whole barn community/movement development. I'm not even sure if I could buy the whole idea from the duo; it's easy to understand kids perspectives as being far more valid than the adults thinking, despite not being practical and the whole scope of things they aren't considering. If accepting that even the grown-up's sugarcoat many things in the story (very needed because it's a movie for children), you might enjoy it.
As a lesson about non conformity, the right and validity of being different than the rest, and such values to be taught to young audiences growing up, this is a very commendable film, though it doesn't hit all the right notes and doesn't convince for too long - plus it's way too predictable. 5/10.
It tells us about Chuck (Joshua Zuehlke), a pitcher from a little league of baseball who refuses to play games after visiting a nuclear missile silo and how they could vaporize everyone in an attack scenario. It was the Cold War days and Hollywood had a bunch of plausible reflections in the 1980's about what would happened if the doomsday was to come - all dark but better films. Chuck is right with his idealism, as it relates with the pointlessness of it all - why bother playing games if the world might come to an end? He doesn't say those things, but we have time to pause and think them all, accept what he's doing and embrace his utopic ideas that the world needs a change.
And when the news of Chuck's pacific protest hits the media, it attracts the attention of Amazing Grace (Alex English), a successful basketball player at the peak of his game who decides to join Chuck's movement, attracting plenty of famous followers but also some downer reactions from the boy's father (William Petersen) who's a jet fighter pilot; a gun lobbyst (Lee Richardson), and tinfoil Americans who think this new age group are siding with Communists. The game changer in this scenario is the American president (Gregory Peck), who's prepared to enter negotiations with the Soviets, but finds time to understand what Chuck is doing.
David Field's script seems something as if taken out of the blue, but it's not. It happened before in reality, in 1982, with 10-year-old girl Samantha Smith, who wrote a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov questioning about the tense relations of Soviet Union and U. S., then he replied back and invited her to visit the country and she went there, becoming a little ambassador between both nations. But it's easy to understand why he didn't want to revisit that real story because it'd end on a sad downer note (she passed away in 1985, on a plane crash in America) and without a closure about the two powers situation. Yet, for all the dreamers in the world who thought this kind of film wouldn't resonate on anything, you're wrong. It's not often discussed (or remembered) but a month after its release, Reagan and Gorbachev reached an effective agreement related with the arms race and a cooperative plan was made.
Directly or not, it opened up the discussion and for that it's a quite noble and valid effort, showing that some apparently ridiculous ideas can work.
For that last matter and the impecable work from the cast, I salute this film. The young Joshua Zuehlke was never on screen again and it's a pity. A cute but sorry face that express a series of emotions, all the needed ones as he saddens about the world he lives in, doesn't understand why things are so complicated and that forces him to not enjoy what he likes doing and does best: play baseball. His interactions with the player offer a more colorful view on things, now that he has new friends; but it's the scene with his dad complaining about his actvisim that is the most moving moment. He doesn't say a word, and you can feel that the boy is painfully sad about everyone, and mostly sad with himself. Mr. Gregory Peck is highly honorable and effective as the American president and no one could have done a masterful job in this role; and Jamie Lee Curtis has some nice dramatic moments as Amazing's manager.
However, I couldn't bring myself totally to it. The transition between sequences is erratic, jumpy and a little confusing; and by that time a tragedy occurs it's impact revolts us instead of leaving us sad; and some dialogues doesn't work all too good - at times it's hard to figure who are the characters exactly, or even the whole barn community/movement development. I'm not even sure if I could buy the whole idea from the duo; it's easy to understand kids perspectives as being far more valid than the adults thinking, despite not being practical and the whole scope of things they aren't considering. If accepting that even the grown-up's sugarcoat many things in the story (very needed because it's a movie for children), you might enjoy it.
As a lesson about non conformity, the right and validity of being different than the rest, and such values to be taught to young audiences growing up, this is a very commendable film, though it doesn't hit all the right notes and doesn't convince for too long - plus it's way too predictable. 5/10.
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- 12 जून 2024
- परमालिंक
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