Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIGUEL. Growing up on a sheep ranch in New Mexico proves eventful for the ten-year-old hero (Pat Cardi) of a sturdy adventure film by the makers of such children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins...
...Miguel, a sturdy successor to such intelligent children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins, is a labor of love by the same makers, Producer Robert Radnitz and Director James Clark, who keep turning out evidence that a movie can entertain, educate and enlarge the experience of youngsters without driving their parents up the wall. Miguel refreshes the spirit like a week at a mountain camp...
...sere, stunning high-plateau country of New Mexico, the movie describes an unhurried but sometimes harrowing year in the life of the ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up. Manly ambition has begun to stir in the boy's child body, and he aches to join the men of his family. Sheepherders for many generations, they spend every summer with their flocks in the green grazing lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full...
...simple story simply told, Miguel sometimes goes naive. The performances are a good cut below professional even in several major roles, and almost no tension develops between the film's human characters, who seem uniformly kind, generous, hard-working and whole. Nonetheless, the movie catches the semidocumentary flavor of Joseph Krumgold's novel, and succeeds as a feeling and poetic exploration of the mysteries that bind man to nature and boys...
...settle for a mere polo pony, but that didn't seem to trouble John-John Kennedy, 5. He had a grand time taking his first all-by-himself ride across the pampas on the Córdoba, Argentina, ranch of Miguel Angel Cárcano, who is an old friend of Grandpa Joe Kennedy's. Jack Kennedy himself had come to Córdoba 25 years before, and now Jackie was saying: "I want my children to learn to love Latin America as their father did. This seemed to me a good beginning." Indeed it was. Flying back...