On Valentine's Day
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In Theaters : 11 April, 1986
Video Release : 23 January, 1996 |
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On Valentine's Day Customer Reviews
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Do You Think In 25 Years You Will Love Him As Much As You Do Now?
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Horton Foote is a playwright and screenwriter of the gentlest, most powerful kind. His beginnings in small town Texas has informed most all of his writing ever since. He has written for broadway, live television and hollywood. He wrote the amazing screenplay for "To Kill A Mockingbird" based on Harper Lee's book. He wrote the films "Tender Mercies" and "Trip to Bountiful" (based on his play) He's won the Pultzer Prize for his play "Young Man From Atlanta" (1995). Many of his plays have ended up on video/dvd and "On Valentine's" is one of them. It was first shown on PBS.
There is a series of plays written by Mr. Foote called "The Orphan's Home Cycle". Nine terrific plays, gentle and rewarding individually...put them together and you have a gorgeous epic that spans decades. The plays follow a boy named Horace from childhood to adulthood.
The middle three plays of this cycle are: "Courtship", "Valentine's Day" and "1918" and are all on DVD and available on Amazon.
"On Valentine's Day" picks up two years after "Courtship" and takes place in a small town Texas rooming house where Horace and Elizabeth live as man and wife. A baby is on the way and it's Christmas Eve. There's been a divide between Elizabeth and her family because of who Elizabeth decided to marry and this play is about the reunion of the spirits and the love of a family as it comes back together. (Made all the more poignent because Horace is an "orphan" and is counting on Elizabeth to be her family.)
Other residents of the rooming house give a view of the world around them and the delicate script gives a profound and addicting take on life and what makes up love, family and security.
"On Valentine's Day" stands alone as an amazing timepiece. Put the film together with the previous chapter, "Courtship" and then the next chapter: "1918" and you have an amazing statement of life in small town America from 1915 to World War I. You have a dramatic poem about love and endurance. You also have an important document of Amercan theater by having a record of this great playwright's work come to life.
The same wonderful cast is in all three films, offering great continuity of performance and sparse, tender storytelling.
[[ASIN:B0002A2VVE 1918]], [[ASIN:B0002A2VWI Courtship]], [[ASIN:B00004R613 Horton Foote's - Alone]] |
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