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...younger Savages are, in short believably ordinary, mildly damaged people, and nothing very dramatic happens as they cope with their rather ordinary problem. Yet Jenkins makes us feel the false cheerfulness and emotional emptiness of nursing home life. Better still, she rather subtly shows how Jon and Wendy's enforced concern for someone they don't really like very much forces them out of their defensive crouches - forces them, too, to take somewhat better control of their own lives. I wouldn't call the film inspirational - it is too well observed to succumb to easy sentiment - but its realism...
...next story begin.” Though poignant, the reference is unnecessarily complex by G-rating standards. In that sense, the film tries too hard to be all-encompassing. While most of the subject matter, and even the jokes at some points, may go over the heads of younger members in audience, it’s not sufficiently witty enough to be consistently enjoyable for older viewers. This tension carries over to Portman’s performance—having played serious roles for the majority of her career, her puns and exaggerated expressions are forced or saccharine sweet...
...injuries to top upperclassmen, and with the women starting six freshmen and the men three, the margin of victory is less important than the fact that both teams have still found ways to register wins. To coach Satinder Bajwa, these early season warm-ups are an opportunity for his younger players to come of age before the brunt of the season arrives in early 2008. “The freshmen are stepping up not because of experience, but because they need to,” Bajwa said. “They are beginning to feel the responsibility much earlier...
...When he goes back to the streets of Detroit, Barnhill says, he can see the influence his success has had on his younger brother and his cousins...
Little by little, I began to ask about his situation. He had fled with his mother and three younger sisters from Ferizaj, a town of 70,000 located 25 miles (40 km) south of Kosovo's capital, Pristina. They moved from village to village in southern Kosovo before taking a train to the Macedonian border, and then an all-night bus to Senokos. When he brought me to his family's tent, his mother showed me one of the few keepsakes she'd managed to grab before fleeing: Dani's seventh-grade class photo. Her son, she told me proudly...