Stolen Summer

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3ffb8fa0.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Stolen Summer</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="790" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 268 WIDTH="778"><div> It's hard to know how to start on this movie.  It has no real violence, no thrilling action, no blood, and yet I would recommend this movie to everyone.  Mostly I think I liked it because it reinforces one of my most fundamental beliefs, and that is that self esteem has very little to do with self and everything to do with others.  This movie came out of a project called Greenlight, which as near as I can tell was a screen play writing contest.  So obviously it is not as polished or professional as the normal Hollywood screenplay.  But it touches all of your emotions and that is one way to measure a movie.  And as Roger Ebert comments <I>"Every once in a while a movie gives you a moment of absolute truth." </I>  And that's what I think makes this movie so good.  It's a struggle between beliefs and a young boys wish to make things right.  The family scenes are so realistic, if you ever had siblings, or have been parents to kids, or just been married for several years, you'll know just how much.  And while I think everyone should see this movie, I believe for sure every Christian should see this movie.   Now some of my Christian friends will tell me the theology isn't exactly right, especially at the end, but there are so many other lessons to be learned it is well worth it.   The end is a little weak, but necessary to complete the story, and it doesn't detract from the whole story.   You won't find 20 copies of this one, so you might have to wait, but it's well worth it.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 WIDTH="778"><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Lutz's Rating  </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <img src="HTMLobj-1024/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   <img src="HTMLobj-1025/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">         [Rating system explained <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U>At The Movies With Lutz</U></A></FONT>]</div> <div> Judy's Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-1026/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">   <img src="HTMLobj-1027/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 49 WIDTH="778"><div> Storyline from Yahoo:  The friendship of two young Chicago boys, Irish Catholic Pete and Jewish Danny, is challenged when Danny discovers that he's dying. He and Pete team up to figure out how they can guarantee they'll get into Heaven; making a list of ten good deeds they call the "Decathlon of Heaven". </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>