The Story Lady

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Summary: Visit your childhood again through this wonderful lady
Review: A delightful trip back to the childhood stories that I loved. Jessica Tandy shows the flustration of getting old with nothing to do, and how important it is to just be yourself. .

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Summary: Another good film with nothing missing from it.
Review: All the characters and story this film needs. This film is pretty much what I thought it would be, a film about a sweet old lady who tells a lot of fairy tales. There wasn't a story she told that I hadn't already heard. It also shows the importance of parents spending time their kids like in "Casper: A Spirited Beginning" and "Jack Frost" and "A Goofy Movie". The dollhouse that Alex gets is a lot like the one I also got for Christmas.

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Summary: NOT ANOTHER FAIRY TALE
Review: Grace McQueen is a senior citizen looking for an opportunity to be of service. She's turned down by agency after agency until she decides to do what she loves;story telling. She manages to get a spot on a public tv station and becomes a hit. Then the fun begins. She is "discovered" by some ad executives who see a gold mine in exploiting her talents.

A whirlwind of network ratings, make overs and new name (Granny Goodheart) overwhelms Grace. How she navigates through this mess is a delightful commentary about how we treat our elders, our own children and ourselves in a doggy eat dog world of our own making.

Jessica Tandy is wonderful as Grace, the grandmotherly figure unwilling to let the studio bosses remake her image. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as the ad executive who is so caught up in her work to the point of neglecting what matters most, her daughter. In this film we re-aquaint ourselves with the taste of what it means to be a family and affirmed in one's old age.

Now sit back and enjoy the Story Lady as she reads you a tale where "they live happily ever after. The End."

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Summary: A Christmas movie you can watch anytime of the year
Review: I am more used to movies starring the husband and wife team of Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. However, Tandy sparkles in this delightful tale of a "senior citizen" who didn't quit. When advanced age caused her to move in with her grown daughter and son-in-law, she found she had too much time on her hands, and went looking for work. After being turned down again and again, she stumbled upon a channel on the TV that interested her. After being told anybody, through cable-access TV, could have their own show, she went for it, and a world of children with busy parents found themselves seated in front of their sets while Grace read stories out of a book. The TV studio producer, enchanted by her, came up with a title for her show -- The Story Lady. One young lady who got hooked on it introduced it to her mother, a TV ad exec (played by Stephanie Zimbelist), and that's where the story takes off. She and her partner, played by Ed Begley, Jr., convince Grace to sign a contract, and try to take control of her. But Grace, and we viewers, find out in the end she proves more than a match for them. A final escapade lands Grace in trouble with the law, but again her indomitable spirit wins out, and she ends up teaching the judge (played by Charles Durning) how to portray himself as Toad of Toad Hall to his daughter. Funny, warm, fast-paced, sentimental, and very delightful.


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Summary: This movie is true classic.
Review: Jessica Tandy does a beautiful job portraying Grace, a kind old lady that finds happiness by sharing her gift of story telling.

This is a perfect film for the entire family.

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Summary: heartwarming movie!
Review: This is a must-view every Christmas! Jessica Tandy is superb as usual and reminds us of what is truly important in life.

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Summary: A wonderful movie!
Review: This movie is an artful combination of humor, moral instruction, and a reminder of what is really important in life. It is beautifully written and the acting is fantastic.