Work is More than a Four-letter Word This is hardly a "review" by anybody's standards. But I must, at the very least, say that we have much to learn by Noah Dearborn's love of his work. His work and his passion are solidly one, and when he speaks about his life or his work, it merely represents a spotlight pointing out the transcendence of his magnificent craftsmanship.
Only one blemish Minus one needless part of the film where you know that a couple of the main characters had just been participating in intercourse outside of marriage, this film was wonderful. Especially if you can edit that part out and burn the movie onto another DVD. Wouldn't recommend this movie to others because of the disgraceful bit, but might show them the edited version, it's really quite beautiful now!
What ever happened to the good old days? Well, Noah Dearborn takes you back to those good old days (if you even have an inkling what I'm talking about). When things were so simple, yet you had much less to worry or concern yourself with. Noah points out that you can enjoy life very much without a cell phone, fancy car, DVD player, navigation system and even electricity!
Noah allows others to run the rat race while he's on his property, doing his own thing, like helping widows and orphans, fixing furniture for those who need his help. That's what I mean about the "good old days". When people mattered more than money and things. When home made apple pie was the highlight of the day because it was made with love. Sidney Poitier did a wonderful job with this flick (well, he knows about most of those days) he fit right into this role.
Collect this movie! It's well worth it. Invite others to view it. No cussing, no illicit sex content, no gangbanging. Perfect for the kids.
A man of manners from a time gone by (4.5 stars) Noah Dearborn (Poitier) lives a simple life off the grid. He uses no electricity, even his car's an antique. The local people call him a "Carpenter God" and more than one local lady has fallen for his respectful grace.
But he's never been married. He only had a dog once. What means the most to Noah is his work and his land--and an out of town developer Christian Nelson (George Newbern) wants to buy the land to build a shopping center.
The offers start kind, $300, 350, 400--thousand dollars. Then, Nelson gets it in his head that anyone who won't sell their land to him is 'crazy'. That's when he calls in his girlfriend, Dr. Valerie Craine (Parker), a psychologist to assert just that so Nelson can get Noah committed and have the County seize his land.
Valerie quickly realizes that there's really nothing wrong with Noah. Noah's even managed to convince Nelson's company lawyer to give it all up to go to California and start a vineyard.
Unfortunately, Nelson is not going to be so easy to persuade. The conflict is inevitable, but the acting makes the whole story worth watching. The only reason this film got a 4 star rating is because of the rough cuts that brand it so obviously 'made for television' and distract the viewer at the critical moments.
Great Movie sadly No Subtitles Typical of Region 1 in Australia We loved this movie. Excellent role by all three of Mary Louise Parker, Sydney Poitier and Diane Wiese. As stated elsewhere our only disappointment is inability to get Subtitles working in Australia where the machine plays the movie ok even though we are Region 4 and this was Region 1 and CLAIMED CLosed Captions (CC)but no Subtitles appeared. We are hoping our new Telextext TV (High Definition) set we are getting later this year will improve ability for Subtitles from all region DVD's Sadly this movie also points out bad attitudes of white to Afro Americans even in later times NOT SIXTIES!
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