Rating: 
Summary: Charming Genre-Defying Film
Review: Liotta & Goldberg are an unlikely but perfect match in this heartwarming bittersweet story of interracial love. Thoughtful direction, cinematography and casting enhance this highly watchable film which sends some subtley important messages on love, grief and family.
Rating: 
Summary: Corrina, Corrina
Review: This was a great movie, but one I think I have to ask is just how many times do they have to feature someone dropping and breaking stuff? We're talking like 4 or so time! That's almost enough for a subplot. :)About half way through the film I was thinking, wait a second, this is 1959 Los Angeles. We're talking pre-civil rights movement. Corrina was being treated as an equal and I felt like the past was being whitewashed like looking through rose colored glasses from current viewpoints. Then all of a sudden they started playing the race card in the latter part of the film and it became evident once Ray Liotta's character became romantically interested in Corrina. I can understand on a dramatic pacing reason why it works well that way, but from a realism point of view it seems like some foreshadowing might have been in order to remind us that it's not a modern tale. The film pulls the heart strings in the right places and the initial focus on the mother who has passed is a real emotional hook. Carrina opening Molly back up after her retreat from life shows the kind of person Carrina is and her zest for life helps bring Molly back out of her shell.
Rating:
Summary: A tender, sweet and funny movie
Review: I missed seeing this movie when it hit the theatre but caught bits and pieces of it on TV years later - and fell in love with it. I rented it twice and finally bought it. Not having grown up in a part of the country where racism was obvious, the interracial relationships that develop in the movie were interesting to watch. When you see little Molly's simple adoration of Corrina - if adoration can be defined as simple -it gives me hope that maybe one day people will look past the color of one's skin before they make a judgement call. Perhaps the most moving moment in the movie - and there are several - was the ending when Manny Singer, a self-confessed athiest lifts his eyes to heaven and asks God for help. What can I say except that this movie is very special and definitely worth watching many times.
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