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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Cider House Rules is the best movie I have ever seen! It is full of so much meaning for all of humanity. Tobey Mcguire made the film what it is; a wonderful story about life. No wonder it won academy awards. Anyone who has been in an orphanage knows what love and acceptance can be in making a life. Tobey Maguire exemplifies in his daily life all the qualities we should strive to have.

If I had children, I wouldn't allow them to watch this movie. Why? The entire movie is a propaganda for abortion. It only depicts pro-choice arguments. Pro-life arguments are completely left out.The most manipulative character in this movie is Doctor Wilbur who talks Homer into guilty feelings for being pro-life ("If this girl came to you few months earlier, and asked for an abortion, what would you have done? Nothing. You would have done nothing. And this happens by doing nothing" (a girl is dying after a badly performed abortion by an amateur). Besides Dr Wilbur, all pro-choice people are the good guys, whilst all pro-life people are the baddies. Homer is an exception to this rule because in the end, he changes his mind and becomes an abortionist himself.Dear author of this movie and the book. There are foster parents in this world who do love their adopted children, and who would never raise their hands against them. And there are mothers who live happily ever after with their rape-children. If Charlize Theron's character actually wanted to have some children so much, why did she abort her first child in the first place? Oh, let me guess, she was just not ready yet for being a mother.I rate this movie with 7 stars for two reasons. When I was a teenager, I didn't fully understand the message of this film. To me, it was a beautifully made movie about a boy searching for a home and a family before realising that the orphanage has always been, and always will be his true home and family. Now that I'm older, I understand the manipulative message ("abortion is not a crime, and should be legalised"). Because of its one-sided message, I think this movie is indeed a very dangerous brainwashing movie. If the author's intent was the legalisation of abortion, then well done! It's legal now in many states and countries. On behalf of thousand millions of aborted babies, THANK YOU very much!! I hope, you can sleep with all those painful screams of unwanted babies. Again, THANK YOU!

This was a time of war and in this remote land, away from the community comes an orphanage were people go for an abortion. Then this orphan, weak in the heart, founds love, from the doctor, and care taker, from an unlikely girl.It is a sad movie with romance in the mix, and a bit of historical background since the war did take part in the endings of the movie. There are many questions that comes up from watching this. The problems of the society, the nature of people, in people left behind, loyalty from those left behind, the irresponsibility and frailty in people, and the cruelty in them. The doctor who resembles the fatherly love of boundless and endless proportion has in his mind the cruelty of people and lost hope from them but not the orphan whom he, the doctor made time to take care of.Afterwards what happens, when people, a couple, do an abortion, do we see regret? Do we see remorse, satisfaction, or perhaps nothing? Questions. At the later part of the story, we see why. Mistakes, and things do why they do this things. Religion also comes in to part in this. The story do tackle a lot of fragile subjects in our society.In terms of who should watch this, it is in my good perspective that the entertainment value of this is subjected for adults. The problems are for adults. the issues, questions, and subjects are for the adult. But I do think it is also important of young adults be aware of this things, since there are a kind of an adult

Homer is among many of the orphans in Dr. Larch's orphanage, Homer has was to be adopted twice when young but ended back in the orphanage becoming one of the oldest orphans there and Dr. Larch's favorite. Dr. Larch taught homer all medical knowledge he possessed, who becomes a skilled doctor but unlicensed. Homer wondered what life outside the orphanage would be like so when Wally and Candy visit the orphanage for an abortion Homer leaves with them and ended up working for Wally's family apple farm. Wally takes off to war leaving his girlfriend Candy and Homer at the cider house, where Homer learns a lot about love and life, in the end he returns to the orphanage to carry on Dr. Larch's work. One of the themes present in the film is, rules have different interpretations depending on the situation. In the film Homer was always against abortion, because it was the rule. But towards the end of the film he ended up performing an abortion himself. Some of the techniques which makes this film a good film includes the transitions between scenes and how the movie is shot. In this film you don't get to see jumps between scenes, they use ease you in to a scene and ease you out it using smooth transitions. A good example is the scene where Homer and Dr. Larch read letter that they wrote to one another, you can see how they switch from one scene to the other and also utilizing a montage like technique where time moves faster and they basically move you from one season to another. Cider house rules is a good film that really shows how important other aspects of the film making process are important in making the film good. The story is somewhat generic but how the story is presented is wonderful, it's simple but elegant. when you start watching the film it's a complete experience with beautiful music and dialogue, and the story feels complete, with techniques like montage they provide a lot of information in a short scene which helps connect the dots and make the film complete.