Eden

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Summary: It's one worth looking up
Review: Responsibility, Initiative, Progress. This movie is now one of my top 5. I can see how it could be recommended for any of several reasons already mentioned by others; for me, as an educator, the "sub-plot" of learning was especially strong and moving.

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Summary: RIP
Review: Responsibility, Initiative, Progress. This movie is now one of my top 5. I can see how it could be recommended for any of several reasons already mentioned by others; for me, as an educator, the "sub-plot" of learning was especially strong and moving.

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Summary: A Garden of Love Grows at a Boys School
Review: Sometimes casting is all. Joanna Going is so believably beautiful that her face and her heart cast a spell over the viewer, and even as the voice of her spirit expresses her desire to be free of the body that slowly decays and then lies still in a long coma, we--and her husband and the young student who loves her--long to see her return to the boys and the grass of the campus she calls home. Okay, it's a corny story, but so's "Romeo and Juliet," and "Eden" affirms the value of life and the glory of love. You'll root for everybody in Eden; they're faulty, stumbling human beings who struggle with life, love and death in the best ways they know how. Everybody grows, and almost all viewers will cheer and tear.

Rating:
Summary: A Garden of Love Grows at a Boys School
Review: Sometimes casting is all. Joanna Going is so believably beautiful that her face and her heart cast a spell over the viewer, and even as the voice of her spirit expresses her desire to be free of the body that slowly decays and then lies still in a long coma, we--and her husband and the young student who loves her--long to see her return to the boys and the grass of the campus she calls home. Okay, it's a corny story, but so's "Romeo and Juliet," and "Eden" affirms the value of life and the glory of love. You'll root for everybody in Eden; they're faulty, stumbling human beings who struggle with life, love and death in the best ways they know how. Everybody grows, and almost all viewers will cheer and tear.

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Summary: Thought provoking and wonderful
Review: This was one of the most life-affirming movies I've ever seen. It was spiritual and heartfelt. The acting is subtle and powerful and the way it handles the 60s is right on the nose. Not too much, not too little. I loved it