The Magic of Belle Isle
The Magic of Belle Isle
PG | 06 July 2012 (USA)
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In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.

Reviews
Diagonaldi

Very well executed

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Evengyny

Thanks for the memories!

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Joanna Mccarty

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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Staci Frederick

Blistering performances.

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Russ

What a beautiful and tender film. As a psychologist, I have recommended it to many of my patients. Of course, Morgan Freeman rarely appears in any film that isn't spectacular. Virginia Madsen is a wonderful actress, but I don't recall seeing her in anything since Dune, So it was fantastic seeing her back in action. This film deals with issues like substance abuse and depression in a way that is uplifting to all of us.

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MADHOUND

I believed every word said - out loud or otherwise - in this movie. For me, films like this come around about once or twice in a decade. I am already a bit anxious of how many times I will watch this during the rest of my life-time. I think the great personal experience was both the film being so well made and where I am at this precise moment in time. Great art touches an individual deeply and I shall not try to put this fine piece of great art into words. I would be a bit amazed of a person who does not get anything out of this one. Recommended for every living Soul. I would not recommend checking out the trailers (although I admit I have not watched them myself) but give this piece of captured time a chance and under 2 hours of your (and preferably with someone you love) life - you will spot the feeling of this one right on.Amazing. Amen.

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Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman)

I wanted to like this but I nearly choked on the clichés and plot holes and to top it all off the ending straight out of Hollywoodland Central.Really good cast, apart from some stilted children (look maw, I'm acting school), plot holes to drive a tank through and an odd character with a mental disability used as a butt for jokes. Offensive.75 year old man in a wheelchair with unusable left arm (except at the end when everyone forgets and he hugs a child)falls in love with a 50 year old woman who reciprocates.She plays piano at a classical level, has no visible means of financial support, he's a jaded alcoholic western novel writer who speaks classical English all the time.Plothole # 8: He takes a gun to a children' birthday party and threatens a clown with it, a clown who makes his living off renting a blow-up castle that one of the children punctures. I'd be one angry clown losing my income like this but no, he skulks off leaving everything behind.The grounds of this movie is littered with such contrivances.It would have been somewhat redeemed with a better ending. But no, I guess the preview audience wanted that old Harlequin thing...shame.4 out of 10.

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Bob An

i stumbled upon this film quite by chance. Did not know anything about it and it blew me away! Really one of the most beautiful films I have seen lately... or at all. Maybe I loved it that much because I am a writer myself so I could relate to many things concerning inspiration - lack of it... The message of the film is really great and powerful. I must confess that I could not stop crying for almost 20 minutes or so ... I don't think I have cried watching a movie that much from ... Bridges of the Medison County?!Really would recommend it to everyone, especially those poetic souls. 10 from me!

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