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(2007 Video)

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1/10
Worst film ever made
tom-18029 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This is a completely amateur production with a weird "plot" and the most wooden dialog imaginable. It looks and sounds like it was made by a bunch of third graders except many third graders would do better.

"PLOT": Supposedly thirteen year old kid (looks at least fifteen) for unclear reasons won't stand up to bully. For this reasons his "friends" talk to him about every three seconds but won't "hang out" with him - who knows why. He finally (for no discernible reason) punches the bully and is immediately kissed by the girl of his dreams and now gets to "hang out".

His grandmother (who he lives with) has no bingo partner one day so kid goes with her to bingo (yeah, that would happen in real life). Kid wins $700 bingo pot. Kid, whose hero is Donald Trump, plans to invest $700 and become Donald Trump II.

Grandmother is grandmother to kid and older brother or perhaps to the entire neighborhood of boys of various ages who appear out of nowhere and live who knows where.

Three fourths into the film and time suddenly flips to years later. Kid has now somehow parlayed $700 into a multi-million fortune that enables him to donate his current office building to charity and build a multi-story office building and open offices in Iraq (who knows why). Problem here is that current office looks like the lobby of a cheap motel. Kids "business partners" are same kids he used to hang out with and none have apparently matured even a year.

"ACTING": The most wooden I have ever seen. Everyone sounds like he/she is doing a bad job of reading this very bad script.

I bought this piece of junk directly from Amazon - not the Amazon marketplace. Amazon should be truly ashamed to offer anything this bad.
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9/10
Feel Good Movie With A Lot of Heart
writerguy22212 January 2008
After watching this film, I was extremely moved. Everyone roots for an underdog, and this underdog certainly winds up having his day! The bottom line message of this movie is: "Don't give up your dreams, no matter how big you think they are, because anything is possible." I won't talk too much about the plot, because I hate "giving things away", but the acting, story, and directing was effortless. Raul Gomez definitely knows how to craft a fine film, and to say this is his first, I give him kudos. And the young actors are a marvel, and will only get better with each role.

If you're looking for a feel good movie, this is one to check out. I promise you won't be disappointed.
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