An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

I don't usually like watching shows or movies that are set in this time period, and that's probably why I only gave it a rating of 6.

It was a nice little movie but nothing about it really made me feel really good and that's one of the top things I look for in a film. I like to have a really good feeling after it is done! So this was just ok...

I actually found this film in our local public library. As I'm starved for anything new to watch I thought hey why not and borrowed this movie. When you see the cover it makes you think it might be a cheesy film. But I didn't think it was at all. The actors whom I personally have never heard of before (but will be looking for in the future!) astonished me at how well they acted. They had me believing the story almost instantly. Though it's no Masterpiece Theater, it's well acted, the music is good, and the characters had you rooting for them the whole time. I suggest that you look for this film. If you liked 'Little Women' I'm pretty sure you will like this one.

The warm family relationships that abound in this production makes the movie an appealing one.

Taking place after the civil war, it chronicles the life of a widow with 3 children who are poverty stricken. The eldest daughter, a writer with a great imagination, concocts a story that ultimately draws their wealthy grandmother to their New Hampshire home.

Jackie Bisset plays the stern grandmother. She is entirely too young for the part. Nevertheless, she gives a gem of a performance as a wealthy matron who married a much older widower than she and had a daughter with him to secure herself financially.

The daughter ran away years before with a stable boy who has now died. Both mother and daughter must confront past events in front of the children.

The story is filled with scarlet fever epidemics abounding.

The film also deals with a getting kind grandmother who will go to any length to get her children and grandchildren out of the poverty cycle.

It is a nicely done film with a triumph of the family spirit in this season of giving.

Very well written. I love the respect given to the audience who allowed to discover characters through the story. We are not told by narration who, what where or why.

Drama develops naturally to develop our understanding as does our love of characters.

I loved this film for its lovely simplicity. For acting. For the flavors of Little ladies. And, sure, for Jaqueline Bisset.

A film about family and childhood courage/ solutions and reconciliation. And about love in fair, gentle manner.

A beautiful trip in past, charming, bitter - sweet, useful for remind values and the attitudes inspired by them. A chain of decisions and small events.

In short, a story for feel it Seductive, simple, touching, precise about a family and the birth of its happiness.

Not great, not memorable but correct and inspired crafted . And this represents a not small virtue.