Six Word Saturday (12/7/13)

Trans Siberian Orchestra Concert and Movies

My husband took the kids to see a football game between two rival high schools here in town so I've had a couple hours to myself.

Monday night the four of us went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert.  We all wore earplugs because it was insanely loud.  I thought the kids wouldn't care for it because of the noise, lasers, pyrotechnics, etc., but they really enjoyed it.

Here are the movies I watched on Netflix this week:

Heart and Souls:  I don't really know how to describe this wonderful movie so I am copying a short synopsis a reviewer left on IMDB.  Robert Downey Jr. is wonderful as the man who became the medium for 4 people who died in a bus accident at the same moment the hero was born. As a child these "friends" were known only to him, eventually leading to psychiatric evaluations because parents, teachers et al insisted something had to be wrong with this child. While still a small child, the "spirits" decide it's time for him to be "without his special fiends"...until at about age 30 they suddenly make contact again. They need a favor; 4 favors. Each one of the foursome died before they could take care of some important unfinished business. In order to go to Heaven and rest in peace, their "little friend" would need to allow each of them to enter his body (since they are only souls) to accomplish their missions.

Brother White:  An L.A. megachurch pastor gets transferred with his family to an Atlanta innercity black church.  The actor who played Pastor White was perfect.  His wife is played by his real-life wife.  (Incidentally, she played the part of the coworker who had the abortion in Sarah's Choice.)  It was a predictable movie and, of course, the family saves the Atlanta church at the end (and **spoiler** they decide not to go back to L.A.**),

Listen to Your Heart:  About a music-writing waiter who falls in love with a deaf girl who ate at his restaurant with her over-protective mother.  The movie was predictable till about an hour into it, then all hell breaks loose (literally).  Everything that could possibly go wrong with this couple, happens.  The last 45 minutes of the movie I couldn't stop crying.  Cybil Sheppard plays the deaf girl's mother and I just hated her for not letting her daughter do very much on her own.

Dutch:  Ed O'Neil (Al Bundy from Married With Children) plays the boyfriend of a rich kid's mother who offers to drive the kid home from boarding school for the holidays.  For most of the movie the kid is cold and unfriendly, but after all their adventures and mishaps he warms up to Dutch.