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Summary: Couldn't wait for the DVD!!!
Review: I originally saw this film on a flight to Germany last April. I guess you can't tell a book by it's cover, so when I saw the title "The Basket", I thought it couldn't be all that good. I put my book down, put on the head phones and was immediately drawn into the story and the characters. By the end, I was thoroughly impressed and noted that this film had to be one of the best I'd seen in years. It's such a great story, the music was great, and the scenery was fantastic. Since last April, I've been patiently waiting for the CD to come out, now that I have it, I've watched it a dozen times. I'll be watching for more films by Rich Cowan.
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Summary: People love it or hate it
Review: I wrote the music for "The Basket" so I'm not going to offer my opinion of the content. I will say that I have heard literally hundreds of responses. Most people love the movie with a very personal intensity. It is not unusual that someone cries when describing their favorite scenes. On the other hand a small number of people I have spoken with hated this movie so much that it made them irrational. I have even received obscene phone calls about it. It makes some individuals that angry. Puzzling but true. If you like sex in your movies, or violence, with macho male heroes and sexpot female heroines, and the F word sprinkled throughout this ain't your movie. But there are plenty out there for you. I think that's why it appeals without exception to retired age individuals. It harkens back to a time when movies were about storyline, not special effects and jarring shocking content. Love to you all, Don Caron
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Summary: Awesome picture
Review: If you want a picture that makes you "feel good" then this is the one. It is simple to watch but you are never left with "pre digested" thoughts for you on this one. It is true to the human intellect. You will wonder about the small German childs mind and what he must be thinking when he is rebuffed by Americans in whose care he is placed. Your heart will sail with the affection of the young German girl's attention for a man whose brother just passed away from the effects of a leg blown off by a German's gun. All in all it was a great movie that took us back to a much simpler time.
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Summary: factually inaccurate and grating
Review: Many folks have praised the historical accuracy of this film. I question the whole factual basis of the film, did 1. Americans kill civilians in Germany, and 2. Was there sufficient time and reason for German orphans to have been brought to America before the War's end?America didn't enter the War 'til 1917, and, from my reading, the Allies did not even penetrate Germany before Armistice in November 1918 For me, this film grates on many levels. One of those is the repetitive Wagnerian musical score and fictional German opera. Could such a choice of an opera comport with a teacher's, never mind community, sensibilities of the time? Was the farmer's supposedly outmoded harvester so advanced in that day as to be beyond the skills of the American farmer nor his grown sons? And while facing an American flag, to which flag was the young German pledging allegiance? This film can be compared to the far more polished 'Snow Falling on Cedars'
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Summary: Dont waste your money!!!
Review: My goodness this is one waste of a 4.7 GB DVD. Might as well use it as a coaster if you already bought it. Deleted scenes? How about they make the whole movie one deleted scene. If you want your intelligence insulted, watch this movie.
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Summary: If You're Over 65, This Film Is First Class Entertainment
Review: Never expect Hollywood to change and make a mature movie with a mature story line for the whole family, like "The Basket." I've been to one movie theater in the last 20 years. My wife dragged me; it was "The Basket." I was stunned like alot of the other people in the theater. They stayed and applauded through the music accompanying the credits. Maybe you don't have to be a little kid to appreciate a clean family movie.
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Summary: Kind of blah
Review: Not a horrible movie, but not that interesting.
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Summary: The Basket
Review: Only two words can aptly describe "The Basket"--- Painfully Horrible. Don't waste your time on the "Waste Basket." I can't believe a made for TV movie(with a Sunday at 3am airtime) actually made it to DVD. What a waste of good technology on a piece of garbage (. . .)
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Summary: The best film of 2000 that you didn't see
Review: Starring Peter Coyote and Karen Allen, The Basket tells the story of a new schoolteacher in Waterville, Washington during World War I. He uses the unlikely subjects of opera and the new game of basketball to help two sibling German orphans who are facing discrimination by others in the town. The film is at once a drama, a sports film, and has some light-hearted moments. It is a wholesome and uplifting film. The production quality is superb and the scenery is quite breathtaking. The film also contains an original soundtrack, produced in part by individuals from Spokane. This is a film which all ages can enjoy. The basketball game's final scene is a moving display of sacrifice you won't soon forget.
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Summary: Overlooked by Hollywood
Review: The Basket is one of those films which causes you to think and yet allows you to walk away from the theatre glad that you spent the time and money to see it. Peter Coyote and Karen Allen do a wonderful job in their roles in this film set in Eatern Washington. The film is a great choice for those with families as the material is not objectionable in the least and yet has the ability to capture the audience with stunning cinematography and a plot which intracately weaves in and out throughout the movie. This film has the feel of a classic foreign film and does not provide easy answers to every question it raises. It also has a wonderful story line concerning the early development of the game of basketball which portrays that development accurately and yet retains the fun that sports films tend to characterize. The local actors called on to play the Spokane team are wonderful and led by their captain (played by Scott McQuilkin) they add great vitality to the film. Most of the viewing public were shortchanged in the limited release of this film, due to heavyweight Hollywood blockbusters which hog the screens across the country. Now with its video and DVD release The Basket has an opportunity to allow viewers to see one of the top movies to come out in 1999. Having seen this movie in the theatres in Spokane I have been awaiting its video debut. Enjoy it, it is a great movie.
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