This film is based on the true story of Bill Porter, a salesman extraordinaire. With a birth handicap of cerebral palsy which affects his mobility, speech and right hand, he embarks on a career of a door-to-door salesman.
His challenges are presented over a nearly 50 year period in his life and the supporting cast serve him well. Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick and Kathy Baker amongst them. It is simple and sweet, an uncomplicated film in a time of violence and pornography, it shines like a beacon to Bill Porter's theme of patience and persistence.
How he influences the lives of those around him, his observation of those lives, feeling that he can never fully participate, is profoundly moving. Not to everyone's taste but a lovely film for those who have the time and can admire an actor at the peak of his craft.
8 out of 10. .
His challenges are presented over a nearly 50 year period in his life and the supporting cast serve him well. Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick and Kathy Baker amongst them. It is simple and sweet, an uncomplicated film in a time of violence and pornography, it shines like a beacon to Bill Porter's theme of patience and persistence.
How he influences the lives of those around him, his observation of those lives, feeling that he can never fully participate, is profoundly moving. Not to everyone's taste but a lovely film for those who have the time and can admire an actor at the peak of his craft.
8 out of 10. .