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Nov 03, 2012
Tells a good story, beware of possible foreign language & subtitles
2 of 2 found this helpful I have been learning a lot about the Protestant Reformation lataly and the issue of how the English Bible came to be. Since William Tyndale is the name most often mentioned, I wanted to "check him out." I have only watched this video once, but I wanted to alert buyers of something I didn't realize - KOREAN was the default language! I "went" to "Set-up", and after a few unsucessful attemts, I got the actors to speak Englisn and no KOREAN subtitles displayed. I have seen other, at least partly biographical films, done much better. What I will say is the props, costumes, settings, etc are EXCELLENT. I should have realized "something was up" when I saw an oriental language that I didn't recognize on the covers. I have absolutely nothing against any ethnic peoples. I just would have appreciated knowing that this video was going to do that. In this picture, there is none of Korean language that is on the cover of mine; perhaps it doesn't have other languages and other language sub-titles. This video tells a good story and may be helpful for others who are engaged in study of the Protestant Reformation, as I am currently. Many of the KJV "bible sayings" are attributed to William Tyndale and viewing his life story is a valuable use of time and money. Just beware that some foreign language may or may not be default in your purchase.
Sep 01, 2010
HHofF Cupid & Cate
1 of 1 found this helpful I watched this movie three times before I started this review, just to be certain, in my mind of the little details I did & did not like. I purchased it first, because it was a Hallmark Hall of Fame. I did not see this movie when it originally aired on network TV. Cate, the title character runs a consignment store of vintage clothing, mostly. She is "comfortable" with her "man", who have been "courting" for at least a couple of years. In fact their interaction seems like they are married. Cate's father's birthday celebration is an early scene in this movie. Dad is hypercritical, especially of Cate. He expresses she is his "disappointment" daughter. Her man, Phillip, I think is his name, is called out of town on some emergency, leaving Cate to attend the birthday party alone, to which she arrives an hour late. Her father is "holding court" & at his side, he is joking with a lawyer who is representing one of the siblings in divorce court. Well, "chemistry & magnetism" connect cate & the lawyer". Phillip takes Cate to a nice outdoor restaurant & offers her a nice ring, but does not say the traditional words "will you marry me?" He says "marriage is the next logical step in our relationship". The viewer meets the former owner of Cate's consignment shop, a proper Irish lady with a thick accent. The mother of the family was a drunk, who had died a little over a year before this story begins. the relationship of cate & Phillip "fizzles" when Cate & Phillip attend some ultra-boring presentation on "fiscal reform". Cate breaks of the engagement with Phillip then & there. Harry, the lawyer, starts courting Cate & he needs an insurance physical. So happens, one of Cate's sisters is a doctor. She does the physical, but it is not explicitly shown. The doctor-sister alerts Cate to a possible problem with Harry's blood. She even says "I will denyI told you & I could lose my license if you tell, but we are sending the blood to an independent lab for verification. Harry may have leukemia. Harry is not told until the results are back that anything is wrong. Cate pursuades Harry to have a "quickie" wedding in front of a Justice of Peace. Harry starts chemo therapy, but initially, he doesn't have many bad side effects. One of Cate's sisters has pursuaded Cate to give the shop a renovation. The shop opens while Harry is still undergoing chemo. He & Cate have a baby, who keeps Cate up at night. Hypercritical Dad drops by with a wooden toy for the baby, unexpectedly. He wants to just look at the baby, but Cate senses he wants her to wake the baby & says as much to her husband. The baby is chistened by a priest-friend of the family. Dad "slips-out" & walks to the cemetary plot where his late wife is buried. Cate follows him & attempts to apologize. He does not accept her apology. A family dinner finally is the "kill-shot", where Dad makes one too many off-hand negative remarks to Cate & the sisters "gang-up" on him. Sparks fly & Dad steams out the back door, with Cate behind him. She reminds him it was her mother & she loved the woman too, but not her drinking. The second reason I bought this movie was the lead actress Mary-Louise Parker. I have seen her in other projects & liked her very much. Adding a little "spice" was Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers & Frasier, Frasier's wife/ex-wife). I have known people like the father in this story. It's not funny, what he does, but realistic.
Mar 07, 2016
A movie I watch multiple times
In my case, I have the VHS format of this movie. I can't tell you how many times I have played it over the years. It is advertized that the DVD is digitally remastered. I imagine this would improve the picture quality. The story is supposedly set in about the 1930's. Doctor Meg is living in Boston, with her husband, also a doctor, and calls out a politician, Judge Adamson, on working conditions of dock workers. For her husband to continue being a doctor in Boston, she is forced to apologize to the Judge, at a well attended party in his home. She finds she can't and decides to return to the orphanage in the Smokey Mountains, where she was raised. The orphanage is closed due to lack of funds, but the care-taker guides Meg to where the lady who ran the orphanage, Effie Web is living now. She sets out on her journey alone and there are chance meetings on the way to Effie. When she finally finds Effie, she is dying. Immediately, Meg tries to perform mouth to mouth ventilation. Effie asks Meg to stay and wills her house to Meg and the "Granny" who is the medical practitioner for that area and Meg clash for the first time. An interesting funeral rite is performed at Effie's house. Meg tries to "muscle-in" with her modern medicine and people of the community want nothing to do with her. In fact, her act of mouth to mouth, they interpret as "kissing on the dying" and "she'll be dead within the week." Eventually, Meg and Granny have to deliver a baby who is in breech position to a teenager who now lives alone, since her parents are both dead. Meg has seen the Cesarean method of delivering baby, but has never performed the surgery herself. Granny has an interesting way of anesthetizing the girl, but yet, she's still awake. The baby is delivered successfully as joint effort of Meg and Granny. Meg is showing symptoms of coming down with some kind of respiratory disease. Granny finishes suturing the tissues of the new mother. She says to Meg"I've been watching you and what you're doing isn't that much different than sewing a quilt." All travel back to Granny's house and Meg goes unconscious, for a while. In this journey, Meg has brought a lot of medical supplies and one father of the area has a temper tantrum in Effie/Meg's house and he destroys some of her medical equipment. On the way there, her horse bucked and her wagon broke to a point she could only carry some of her equipment to her journey. He gets recruited to go and find where the wagon had the accident and bring back what equipment he could selvedge. Granny can't read, and she asks one of the children to help her with the labels on the bottles brought back. Sulfa was the only antibiotic available back then. But, before she went unconscious, Meg wasn't able to give Granny dosing instructions. Granny administered one dose the only way she knew how by cutting a little incision and using a reed to hold the medicine. Metal syringes were in popular use in modern medicine by then, but Granny didn't know this. Eventually, Meg outlasts the sickness and awakens. Meg's husband visits her with a wagon full of medical equipment, but informs her he is only visiting and will return to Boston after the visit. This movie was a made-for-television movie in 1979. I saw it for the first time on A&E network and when I found the movie on VHS, I purchased it.
One other reviewer mentioned Christy and Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman as being similar to this movie. I have viewed both of those TV series and loved them too. I agree with that reviewer. Christy is set about the same time period and region of the country. Christy is a school teacher for the community she travels to, Cutter Gap, TN in 1912. Dr Quinn was set in the period immediately following the Civil War and the community of Colorado Springs. But, the medical part of the plot for Dr Quinn is the similarity. Small details, perhaps, but the movie and the 2 series are all similar. Because I love this movie like I do, I may sometime purchase it in DVD format. If you haven't viewed this movie previously, it's not a waste of time or money to purchase this.