Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon of June 25,1876, with guns blazing and sandy hair shining, Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, along with some 220 of the troopers under his command, was massacred near Montana's Little Bighorn River. The secrets of his last stand against more than 2,500 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors were buried with him. There were no white survivors to tell the tale, but plenty of folks back East were ready to propel Custer directly into legend as a straight-shooting hero. The years have only served to embellish the myths and mysteries...
...quest is for coolness. After a year of cultural and emotional R. and R. in Montana, former Magazine Writer Kelly Martin returns to the heat of a New York City summer resolved to find happiness by achieving a perfect balance between being "loving and acid-smart." Instead, she meets the laconic Jennings, whose last name is never mentioned, and returns to her favorite indoor sport: power tripping...
Chris Cain's The Stone Boy, a touching--if somewhat contrived view of a small town Montana family struck by tragedy--is unmistakably an ideological throwback to Ordinary People. Both films present pictures of ostensibly cohesive, happy families; both revolve around the same tragic insident--the accidental death of an older son--and in the process both depict fairly typical people in the throes of crisis...
...noble attempts to rival its award winning predecessor. The Stone Boy is not, as some critics have maintained, another Ordinary People. Though the film does feature some quality acting making for several memorable and rather moving scenes, it does not provide a cathartic evening of personal introspection. The rural Montana pea fields in which the film takes place are as far a cry from the white collar, Illinois suburbs of Ordinary People as possible. And Glenn Close, who gives a convincing, and poignant portrayal of the Stone boy, alias Arthur's mother, is anything but the divisive, embittered figure that...
...whole, The Stone Boy is a moving picture of Montana life, and of the pain that can result when even the closest of families insulates their children from life's harshness. Yet because of the film's heavy-handed treatment, it both fails to stir fully the audience in the same way that similar films like Ordinary People. The stone boy melts in this movie, by the audience only partially thaws...