Courtship
by Howard Cummings
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Actor: Daisy Foote, Hallie Foote, Horton Foote Jr., Michael Higgins, William Converse-RobertsDirector: Howard Cummings
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Peter Sova
Editor: William A. Anderson
Writer: Horton Foote
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Movie Review: Suppose he doesn't love you and is just infatuated.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Horton Foote is a playwright and screenwriter of the gentlest, most powerful kind. His beginnings in small town Texas has informed most all of his writing ever since. He has written for broadway, live television and hollywood. He wrote the amazing screenplay for "To Kill A Mockingbird" based on Harper Lee's book. He wrote the films "Tender Mercies" and "Trip to Bountiful" (based on his play) He's won the Pultzer Prize for his play "Young Man From Atlanta" (1995). Many of his plays have ended up on video/dvd and "Courtship" is one of them. It was first shown on PBS.
There is a series of plays written by Mr. Foote called "The Orphan's Home Cycle". Nine terrific plays, gentle and rewarding individually...put them together and you have a gorgeous epic that spans decades. The plays follow a boy named Horace from childhood to adulthood.
The middle three plays of this cycle are: "Courtship", "Valentine's Day" and "1918" and are all on DVD and available on Amazon.
"Courtship" takes place in Texas of 1915 and tells the story of Horace as he courts Elizabeth. (Played beautifully by Horton's daughter). As we hear Elizabeth and her sister (played by the wonderfully quirky Amanda Plummer) talk of what's happening in the town around them and the old fashioned patriarchal presence of their parents overshadow the proceedings, it becomes difficult for Elizabeth to make a decision that will please her parents, her sister, Horace and herself. The delicate way the subjects of love, danger, security and family roam in and out of the dialouge is very moving. "Courtship" stands alone as an amazing timepiece. Put the film together with the next chapter, "On Valentine's Day" and then with "1918" and you have an amazing statement of life in small town America from 1915 to World War I. You have a dramatic poem about love and endurance. You also have an important document of Amercan theater by having a record of this great playwright's work come to life.
The same wonderful cast is in all three films, offering great continuity of performance and sparse, tender storytelling.
1918, On Valentine's Day, Tender Mercies, The Trip to Bountiful, Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful (Foote, Horton), The Young Man From Atlanta.
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