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Movie Reviews of Door to Door
Movie Review: Great Management Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Please, if youre related to management or something, you have to have this movie, really inspirational.Movie Review: A favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars
William H. Macy was brilliant in this movie. What a performance - and story!
Movie Review: Patience and Persistence
Summary: 4 Stars
One doesn't see the classic DOOR TO DOOR salesman anymore. (The occasional youthful hawker of magazine subscriptions or Girl Scout cookies doesn't count.) But for more than 40 years beginning in 1955, Bill Porter walked the same sales route in Oregon for the (real-life) Watkins Company, which sold (and still sells) an esoteric mix of products from laundry soap to dog biscuits to condiments.Porter was afflicted with cerebral palsy at birth. In this made-for-TV film, Porter (William Macy) explains its cause as the too assiduous application of forceps by the obstetrician who delivered him. As the film opens, Bill is attempting, at age 21, to land his first job as a salesman, the profession of his deceased father. Porter is encouraged and supported by his mother (Helen Mirren), who writes the words "patience" and "persistence" with ketchup on the outside of her son's brown-bag sandwiches after Watkins reluctantly hires the young man. To prove that he can do the job despite his disability, Porter has challenged Watson by offering to take the toughest sales route that nobody else wants. Soon after, Bill's mother begins to suffer the mental impairment that eventually lands her in an assisted care facility. Bill is now on his solitary own.
If it wasn't for Macy's performance, DOOR TO DOOR would just be another of those warm and fuzzy human interest stories that otherwise makes my eyeballs roll for its political correctness. Macy, who's cast in the lead too infrequently, turns in his best performance since FOCUS (2001) - perhaps better. The actor's depiction of Porter's handicap is a pointed reminder of the difficulties to be surmounted by one so afflicted, even including painful isolation from normal, male-female sexual intimacy and romance.
At the end of the film's credits, the audience is made aware of the fact that the real-life Bill Porter has a website. Out of curiosity, I signed onto it and discovered that it's actually a link to Watson's on-line shopping catalog. It left me wondering if I hadn't just been manipulated into watching a lengthy Watson promo. It's that vague feeling of having been conned that causes me to award 4 stars instead of the five otherwise due Macy's brilliant work.
Movie Review: Very good movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this movie. It stars William H. Macy as Bill Porter, a door to door salesman for Watkins. What makes him unique is that he has cerebral palsy. He got the job by asking for a chance by taking the worse route. It wasn't easy but he found success through patience and persistence. BTW, this is based on a real person and his life story.
Everyone in this film is excellent and despite the plot it never got too sappy. I think it's partly because of the acting. I think anyone can like this movie.
Movie Review: A heartwarming story....
Summary: 4 Stars
I had not heard of this movie until William H. Macy appeared recently on Oprah to promote his Wild Hogs film. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone. I have only one question (can anyone answer this?).....Bill Porter received a Christmas gift from Gladys Sullivan which he put in his briefcase and we never saw him open it. After she died, I thought there would be some mention of it. What gift did he get, or was this a goof on the part of the writers? Nonetheless, great movie!