ktrawick

I found this movie very entertaining. An imperfect family creates angst for a pre/early teen girl and her younger brother. Faced with the prospect of their parents splitting up, a found book tells them how the Sandman has the answer to the kids' dreams.

The story is moving, funny, at times dramatic and tense. The optics are awesome, with believable actions, reactions and vibrant colors.

It portrays kids with fears, parents in crisis mode, and the heartwarming bonding it takes to keep a family together.

It also has a pretty great soundtrack, to boot.

If you're looking for unicorns, rainbows and perfect people, this won't give you that. It might just give you insight into how kids think when the prospect of divorce looms in their futures.

Joy is rude, unappreciative and a snob, not to mention dumber than a stump. It drives me nuts when shows are written about areas out of the big cities and no one bothers to do research before writing these fantasies. Yeah, yeah, it's fiction. But I guarantee that if an error was made regarding the lay out of NYC or LA it would become an issue. GPS would not have taken Joy back into the mountains but toward Grand Junction instead. It is relatively flat between between the 2 towns and the better way to go east. And why do they think that everyone that lives in Colorado drives or needs a 4 wheel drive? I drove over the Rockies dozens of times in two wheel drive cars in all kinds of weather. The stereotyping is absurd. I will give kudos for the scenery.