Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
by Ken Cameron
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Actor: Blythe Danner, Cami Cooper, Ed Grady, Garette Ratliff Henson, Stephanie Astalos JonesDirector: Ken Cameron
Brand: ALLUMINATION FILM WORKS LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 40707
Studio: Allumination
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Movie Review: An Amazing Movie, With Talented Actors!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie years ago, when it first appeared as a TV movie. It amazed me then, and it amazes me now. There are so many great parts in this movie, so many poignant moments. And what a cast -- Diane Lane as Lucy Marsden and Donald Sutherland as "Captain" Willie Marsden, who she calls only "Cap'n."
The story is told through flashbacks as an elderly Lucy reflects upon her life as she now lives at a retirement facility. She remembers back to her childhood, starting with the year 1899 when she was 15 years old. A school assignment takes her to the Marsden home, where she is to interview Mrs. Marsden (Willie's mother) about Civil War life. During this visit, she runs into the family's maid, Castalia (Cicely Tyson) a freed slave who chose to remain with the family as a servant, and a 50-year-old Captain Marsden, who's been a good friend to Lucy's family. Captain Marsden courts Lucy (who's always been more of a tomboy than a young Southern lady, to her mother's constant frustration) and proposes to her. As is the way during that time, age isn't a factor and her parents approve the match.
Sutherland does an excellent job as William Marsden, a man who has never forgotten just what the Civil War has cost him ... and how it's changed him. He was a young soldier at 13, given a uniform in the South's desperation to get as many men onto the field as possible. At 13, he watched men die around him, endured terror in a field hospital, and lost his best friend,Ned, another young boy, in battle. He carries the Civil War with him daily.
One thing I like about this movie is the chemistry between Lane and Sutherland. It is easy to see that Lucy and Captain Marsden DO love each other and have a mostly happy marriage, with a house full of children ... the boys named by Cap'n Marsden after comrades he'd known and lost during various battles. Both are stubborn people, and they have many battles of will ... but they do love each other. The Captain relies upon his wife to help him forget the war, and Lucy tries ... but as PTSD wasn't diagnosed back then, she is powerless. After a hunting accident injurs her oldest child and yellow fever claims her youngest, Lucy struggles to maintain her own equilibrium. At one point, she leaves her home but encounters a childhood friend (who actually betrayed her back then) who lost her family by running away ... and finally returns home with a new sense of where she belongs.
This is a great drama with fascinating insight about just what those boys who returned home from the nation's most bloody war may have felt ... the demons that chased them into their adult lives, and how those demons affected their own families. It also shows how strong Lucy was for putting up with those demons he brought in, and enduring her own.
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