my Chiquita and I chose a movie from a pile of DVD cases owned by her roommate, and it was this piece of garbage. She fell asleep and i had to fight this terrible movie all by myself. Im being too harsh, the movie is not terrible. It tries to be good, but it fails.
My main concern with the movie is not the acting which i don't think is bad, some actors in this movie are better than others who are famous.i thought the main actress was pretty decent. What i didn't like at all was the plot.
The main character is this woman (there are like 20 characters in this) who teaches English is high school, she is not very good at listening to others or trying to understand them. There's also this guy who came back from Iraq and lost his girlfriend, He hates life and runs away from it from town to town. And finally this other woman, struggling mother of two boys, lost his husband in Iraq. And some more other characters, mainly the widow's son, One day the two main characters are visited in different ways by a supernatural woman. She tells the young veteran to fix a house and tells the woman to be prepared. The woman swaps lives with the widow (whos she had been insensitive to before) and now the two main characters have a specific mission: He has to forgive himself and help the struggling family, and she has to understand this family to learn her lesson. I said swap lives but we don't really see that, because the other woman never appears again in screen, her family acts like nothing is happening so we assume there is somebody living her previous life. The main character never tries to make contacts to the being that is living in her body! She just goes with it (she's supposedly fighting it at the beginning but she doesn't really do anything that matters) Lets skip to the predictable end. The family overcomes their problems and the guy forgives himself. They have the corniest scene with Christmas lights 6 months before Christmas so the dead father can see them from the sky. The teen boy finishes his paper about his dead father and he can rejoin the basketball team to win the match just at the last seconds. The struggling family loses the house but somebody pays anonymously for a new house just by their previous house. And the veteran guy joins the supernatural woman in a quest for saving souls.
Problem with the swap lives' thing. The teacher returns to her body after learning her lesson, one week later. She basically re lives the whole week in her body while the other woman re lives the same week in her original body as well. Somehow, the things reach the same conclusion, the family lives the same moments with the veteran and so on, wouldn't two different people make different choices?. Also if angels can appear in peoples lives giving them visions of the lives of others, why are they secret, they should go all out helping the world so no more wars could happen. The movie was like a longer touched by an angel episode, and that show was bad. Maybe I'm wrong and this movie is a parallel dimension/time travel masterpiece.
I thought it was bad. Its my fault, i should know better, every movie with basketball scenes cant be great.
My main concern with the movie is not the acting which i don't think is bad, some actors in this movie are better than others who are famous.i thought the main actress was pretty decent. What i didn't like at all was the plot.
The main character is this woman (there are like 20 characters in this) who teaches English is high school, she is not very good at listening to others or trying to understand them. There's also this guy who came back from Iraq and lost his girlfriend, He hates life and runs away from it from town to town. And finally this other woman, struggling mother of two boys, lost his husband in Iraq. And some more other characters, mainly the widow's son, One day the two main characters are visited in different ways by a supernatural woman. She tells the young veteran to fix a house and tells the woman to be prepared. The woman swaps lives with the widow (whos she had been insensitive to before) and now the two main characters have a specific mission: He has to forgive himself and help the struggling family, and she has to understand this family to learn her lesson. I said swap lives but we don't really see that, because the other woman never appears again in screen, her family acts like nothing is happening so we assume there is somebody living her previous life. The main character never tries to make contacts to the being that is living in her body! She just goes with it (she's supposedly fighting it at the beginning but she doesn't really do anything that matters) Lets skip to the predictable end. The family overcomes their problems and the guy forgives himself. They have the corniest scene with Christmas lights 6 months before Christmas so the dead father can see them from the sky. The teen boy finishes his paper about his dead father and he can rejoin the basketball team to win the match just at the last seconds. The struggling family loses the house but somebody pays anonymously for a new house just by their previous house. And the veteran guy joins the supernatural woman in a quest for saving souls.
Problem with the swap lives' thing. The teacher returns to her body after learning her lesson, one week later. She basically re lives the whole week in her body while the other woman re lives the same week in her original body as well. Somehow, the things reach the same conclusion, the family lives the same moments with the veteran and so on, wouldn't two different people make different choices?. Also if angels can appear in peoples lives giving them visions of the lives of others, why are they secret, they should go all out helping the world so no more wars could happen. The movie was like a longer touched by an angel episode, and that show was bad. Maybe I'm wrong and this movie is a parallel dimension/time travel masterpiece.
I thought it was bad. Its my fault, i should know better, every movie with basketball scenes cant be great.