In America
If you want to see a great movie, check out Jim Sheridan's In America. It's the story about his family coming to America from Ireland -- a semi-autobiographical tale about the time when he was running New York City's Irish Arts Center. Here's your exclusive peek at a bit from one of the early versions of the script, that didn't make it into the final film. This is Christy, 12, talking (as a kind of to-camera narration), from the back of an old station wagon, as her parents are being questioned by the border patrol guards before crossing from Canada into the United States:
CHRISTY This is a coming of age story...unfortunately, it's my father that is coming of age. Mam makes all the small decisions in our house. Where we live, what we eat, where we go to school. Dad makes all the big decisions, like whether the Jews should give back the West Bank to the Palestinians.
How good is the film? Well, Richard Roeper is so sure you'll love it to pieces that he says he'll give you your money back if you don't.
Moving. Inspirational. And true.
david at December 26, 2003 10:03 AM