Please don't make "America's Heart And Soul" controversial

[Zorra]

Conservatives are doing their best to create controversial opposition to this film.

This film, IMO, based on watching the trailer, is a sugary sweet, low impact little movie with a script that could have been taken from Reader's Digest.

Conservatives are pushing this film as an "antidote" to F9/11 in an attempt to generate controversy and gain free publicity for this cute little low impact film. They realize that they shot themselves in the foot by creating controversy over F9/11, and are now trying to recoup the damages

Please don't buy in.

Let's just let it die quickly, from natural causes.

[redqueen]

1. Couldn't this have gone in the thread about it?

Did there need to be two?

[Zorra]

3. I was intending to make this idea higher profile

so that DUers would read it and not respond to any more threads about this film.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say this.

[redqueen]

5. hehe

Gotcha. That's the reason I didn't reply to the *other* thread... who cares! :)

[papau]

11. Released To 22 mostly little towns in AMC chain on July 2nd

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381006 /

Heart & Soul on 2 July 2004 22 cities (AMC chain)

DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press


If "Fahrenheit 9/11" is the firestorm of documentaries about the American way, then "America's Heart & Soul" is the Hallmark card.<snip>

Told in segments of a few minutes each, the film offers snapshots of about two dozen people Schwartzberg encountered while traveling the country with a small film crew in 2000 and 2001.

Some have achieved a degree of fame and notoriety, such as Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream co-founder Ben Cohen or champion aerobatic plane pilot Patty Wagstaff. Others are mainly local characters, such as daredevil Manhattan bicycle messenger John "Yac" Yacobellis, Kentucky rug weaver Minnie Yancey or Colorado cowboy Roudy Roudebush, who rides his horse into the local saloon.

Schwartzberg travels to West Virginia to talk with disillusioned but resilient steelworkers worried about overseas competition. He visits Mississippi gospel singer Mosie Burks, who raised her six younger siblings after their mother died. He hangs with Vermont dairy farmer George Woodard, an amateur actor, musician and filmmaker whose sums up his work ethic this way: "The thing about working seven days a week is you don't have to worry about going back to work on Monday when Sunday comes."

Charles Jimmie Sr., a Tlingit Indian elder in Alaska, speaks mystically of his father as an eagle, his mother as a raven. Amelia Rudolph of Muir Beach, Calif., leads her Bandaloop Cliff Dancers through dazzling routines of gravity defiance while suspended off mountainsides. Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer of New York City talks about injecting James Brown and Jimi Hendrix influences into his Jewish music traditions.<snip>

"America's Heart & Soul," a Disney release, is rated PG for mild thematic elements. Running time: 88 minutes. Three stars out of four.

[NWHarkness]

2. The best policy is to ignore it

[Q3JR4]

4. I don't know

why anyone would want to create such a controversy over a movie. I don't care one way or the other.

[LTR]

6. It's just that since RWers are so inept at making movies...

...they latch on to whatever they can.

Witness "Passion of the Christ".

[info being]

7. Aren't you doing just that?

[Zorra]

8. Please read posts #3 and #5.

;-)

[Emboldened Chimp]

9. Sugary Sweet = Box Office Failure

I wouldn't worry too much about this movie. It's a weak attempt to rival MM, but they simply don't understand that people see his movies because he's funny, provocative and a great filmmaker. I get the feeling "America's Heart and Soul" will be saccharine hackwork. Do not fear.

[mmonk]

10. It will die a natural death

once people learn it's devoid of new information and it's what they already get on TV.

[progressivebydesign]

12. Sounds like a sweet little movie.. Unfortunately MAF co-opted it!

I would gladly let this sweet little film have it's own life.. Sounds like something much more suited to the World of Disney, or a Hallmark Hall of Fame or whatever, instead it was released into the theatres. If Disney had not allowed Move America Forward to politicize this film, then we wouldn't be talking about it. THat was a dumb move on Disney's part, or a really stupid move on MAF's part.. for which they'll be smacked down by Disney for implying they had a partnership of some sort.

[librechik]

13. what's to refute? I'm sure it's factual, just like f9/11

and one-sided, just like f9/11

I'm pretty sure this movie will copy the Bush Administration and be a miserable failure. Sounds more like a travelogue, than a documentary.

[LittleApple81]

14. I ignore most of Disney's movies anyway. I don't need more propaganda. We

should not even discuss it. It is a stupid film. We are vainglorious enough about how good, generous, wonderful we are.

[mturnerRNNTV]

15. As Michael Moore himself said....

"When they (Republicans) don't like something, they try to stop everyone else from seeing it. When we don't like something, we just don't watch it." (Apologies for any slight paraphrasing, but you get my point...)