What a terrific, unique,beautiful, tragic and fun movie. The actors were NOT trained actors and i think this led to the believability of the film and the relationships.
It takes place at the time of Hurricane Katrina and in a community called the Bathtub. In an area of extreme poverty, this was one step below that. The events take place right before and after the hurricane and is mainly the friendship and mentoring and relationship between a small girl called Hush Puppy (she is about 7 or 8) and her alcoholic father. But its also about the Bathtub's response to the hurricane and the community and fellowship they had. Its also about the physical changes to their way of life and about their reaction when they were forcibly removed from their shacks to live in shelters (this didn't last long).
and it was also - very mesmerizingly and gently and magically presented- about Hush Puppy's survival and her adaptation to the changes in her life situation.
A fabulous movie; both of us rated it a 10. The movie is only about 100 minutes but by the time i could quit sobbing and drooling and blowing my nose and searching for my kleenix and chortling through my snot, it approached 115 minutes. These weren't just tears of sorrow either which is why the movie was so grand.
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