JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

p.newhouse@talk21.com The film perfectly captures the conflict between the stultifying requirement for conformity in suburban small town 1950s America, and the need for personal freedom and expression. The script writing is lean and spare, and in so being avoids patronising the viewer, and it allows the cast to masterfully convey things by leaving them unsaid. Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio is breathtaking as the quietly seething diplomat of a widow, steering her life and family through the slings and arrows of outraged neighbours, who welcomes an injured drifter, Jack (Patrick Swayze) into her home. This is a combination of period piece, family drama, and mystical tale.

FourInTheFamily This movie was billed as "fun for the whole family" -- NOT. It was awful. The setup/beginning of the movie has a lot of great possibilities. But it just gets stranger and stranger as the time goes on.A "Family friendly" movie DOES NOT include sunbathing in the nude, implied relations between mom and a drifter, cancer/deadly disease for the little brother, flying around in the sky, and losing your business and home as an adult. Depressing and weird.My 6 and 8 year old may not have picked up on some of the innuendos but from age 72 to age 6 we all hated it.

famelovingboy68 I saw this for rent last summer in the video store, I used to own it when it was brand new, and I was excepting a really old-fashioned era movie. I asked my mom about it, she said it was such a very, very uplifting, great movie. I got a good idea, it could be a modern day twist on Aladdin, set in LA, and Mazzello could be an orphan, streetrat in the big city. Thought would so rock. Let's get to the movie, Jeanne Holman (Mastrantonio) is struggling to raise her two sons, Tom (Mazzello), about 11, and Gunny about 5. Gunny has cancer, and Tom sucks at baseball, and is looking for a father figure, since his father is presumed to of died in the Korean war, and Swayze's good as the vaggrant, who turns out to be a drifter, who accompanies a genie that's actually a dog, Tom's friends think he's scary and peculiar, but turns out to be kind, eccentric, and even tells stories, that tell us about his dreamy, fantasy life, I get frustrated when I can't play baseball, and lose my temper sort of easy, because I've tried for so long, and I can relate to this, it's helpful if you're struggling at something. Tom is NOT a normal kid in my opinion, despite what reviews said say he's sensitive, and serious and is an outcast looking for a family. Just like the Real Joe with emotional challenges.

SHAWFAN Certainly a mixed bag of comments on this one. I'm definitely one of this film's boosters. I saw it long ago on a motel tv in the middle of the night and have never forgotten it. My memory was that it was an 80s movie; I suppose because most of the plot was set in the 50s. When I rediscovered that it was made as late as 1995 I was quite surprised. The fact that women directors and writers were so heavily involved with this movie explains its beautiful emotional resonance. Even now as I write this I'm again deeply moved by the whole story and its telling. To me it's right up there with films like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street," etc. Recently TCM has been featuring great women screen writers like Frances Marion and April Guy Blache. I'm glad to discover that women are still and again strongly contributing to our collective screen world of emotions and feelings. Too bad this sensitive approach seems to turn some of your reviewers strongly off. Perhaps it's a gender thing.