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Friday, June 1, 2012
"The Hide Away" - Stay Away
While waiting for the film, "The Hide Away," to start with only 2 others in the theatre, a woman came in & asked loudly, "Is this for The Hide Away?" Yes, I said, figuring besides being old maybe she wasn't sure with just 3 people in the theatre. (This was an augur for poor sailing ahead.) After the trailers, the feature film commenced without audio which lent itself a serene aura for this isolated harbor setting, but when the actors started talking with no sound, I got up to notify an usher. A man came in shortly after to apologize & tell us they would restart the film. "I don't want to see the trailers again!" shrieked the woman in her obnoxious voice. I voted her off our Island. The stars of this quiet film are Oscar Nom. James Cromwell, Israeli Oscar Nom. Ayelet Zurer and Josh Lucas, a dead ringer for Oscar winner, Paul Newman. The movie goes no where fast as does the dilapidated boat that Lucas spends a year repairing while grieving and atoning for the deaths of his wife, son & daughter. The soulful tag line from the movie is, "What are the two best days of a sailor's life? The day he buys his boat and the day he sells it." I have much better line from a much better film, "We're gonna need a bigger boat." And, you don't need to see this sinker, I mean stinker.
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