A Painted House
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Movie Reviews of A Painted House
Movie Review: Rough life
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent film. Something that not only could happen, but probably did. Tough times and how people dealt with hardships. Scott Glenn did a superb job. The boy learned valuable lessons quickly.Movie Review: family movie
Summary: 5 Stars
It keeps you thinking. It has a great theme of family and closeness. The story of one boy and his families hardships living by the river.Movie Review: Pretty good for a book adaptation
Summary: 4 Stars
I was curious about this film because I had recently read - and enjoyed - the book by John Grisham. And well, yes, the book IS better, but who would expecte anything else? The movie version still is very good indeed, the acting was good. Scott Glenn played the grandfather very convincingly and Logan Lerman gave a promising performance as young Luke Chandler. These two worked well together and they are the main characters. Although some slight story adaptations were made, the film still stays true to the book (John Grisham himself was involved in the project). There should have been a little more focus on the character of Cowboy, since his part in the story got bigger towards the end and only little background about the developing conflict between him and Hank Spruill (a very good performance by Pablo Schreiber as the angry young man) was really given - whereas in the book the conflict builds gradually. The final - and fatal - fight between the two also differs from the book version, but the way it starts here was probably necessary to make it work (see my comment about the lack of development). Apart from a few minor upsets, this is a fine and entertaining film.Movie Review: A Painted House, video, based on John Grisham's novel
Summary: 4 Stars
Having read and enjoyed the novel, I found the video to be excellent. It closely followed the novel.
Probably best suited to those 'near seniors' who can relate more easily to the setting time of the 1950's!
Movie Review: The book is always better than the movie
Summary: 3 Stars
One reviewer complained about the narrator, but I believe we should make allowances for him since it was the author John Grisham. Having grown up in the area and the same timeframe, I thought they got the accents and the flavor of cotton farming reasonably close.