Mr. Rice's Secret
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Actor: Bill Switzer, David Bowie, Garwin Sanford, Teryl Rothery, Zach LipovskyBrand: MTI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Mti Home Video
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Movie Review: A reply to Conrad Spoke, an anti-Christ, below.
Summary: 5 Stars
***** Warning, Spoilers *****
I knew as soon as I saw Conrad Spoke's review below that I just had to get this movie.
After viewing the movie for myself and revisiting the afore mentioned offensive review I can, with confidence, refute his claims and rebuke his falsehoods.
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this chap claims that anyone sacrificing their lives for another is someone to be derided.
Obviously, he has forgotten, or never appreciated, the risk to her own life, his mother took in bringing his miserable life into this world.
Being a mother who almost died giving birth and whose own baby sleeps with the angels; I am able to speak with some authority on the fact that many mothers still do take their own lives into their hands to bring the miracle of life into this world.
He has also forgotten the many generations of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, Merchant Marines, doctors, nurses, police, fire fighters and Emergency Medical Technicians who have given their lives to save the lives of others and who fought to purchase the rights and freedoms that we appreciate today.
He also claims that science cured Owen and not the potion that was gifted to him by Mr. Rice.
That also is untrue.
While he WAS getting better, it wasn't until Owen took the stopper off the vial and accidentally spilled some of the potion into his open wound, (which, incidentally immediately cured his cut.....remember that?) that the Hodgkin's disease was cured, since the potion went straight into his blood stream and didn't have to travel throughout his body by being swallowed.
Immediately after that, his hair grew back in; he had more strength and more energy.
His friend (who was the one with Leukemia, not Owen) was dying and Owen knew that he had contributed to his friend's death by luring him into the beating he was given by Owen's other "friends".
So, rather than being selfish and hogging all of the potion for himself, (he could have gotten 2 lifetimes out of that vial since it had already cured all disease from his body when it fell in his cut) he decided to do the right thing and give his friend the same gift that had been given to him.....a lifetime without disease.
A person doesn't need a "consent form" to correct the damage they caused and since his friend communicated to Owen several times that he wished to live and not die; Owen had what, in the medical field is called, implied consent.
They have to use it all the time when they get patients in the E.R. who are unconscious or mentally unsound.
Once a person is cured they can make their own decisions, but to withhold life saving medical aid is tantamount to murder and that, you can be legally held liable for.
Having been a United States Army, Military Police soldier, I know whereof I speak.
Anyway, that is how Owen knew that he had a life worth living, and losing and that it is in what you do with your life that matters.
He was able to make a positive difference in someone else's life and that is what life is all about...being of benefit to others, and contributing to life; not being a burden on the world and a waste of oxygen.
Yes, Owen had a chance to know a portion of what Jesus gave to us all when He died on the cross for our sins to appease His Father's wrath with us, His unruly and unrepentant children, and earn back for us, through His own willing sacrifice, the promise of eternal life with God our Father.
And that was the greatest gift that Mr. Rice gave to Owen.
The gift of love.
I truly pity the person who has no love or charity in their hearts and who feels the need to impose their misery upon everyone else.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Grinch.
Summary of Mr. Rice's Secret
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