All the Way Home (1963) :
Brief Review -
Simplicity at its smoothest and best in the family drama genre. Ever had a death in the family? Here's your story, then. All the Way Home is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which was adopted from "A Death In the Family." Though I haven't read the novel, what I gathered from the basic plot made me make up my mind about the fact that the play did more justice to the story. It takes you into the small family of a man, his wife, and their 6-year-old son. That kid is what I was or what you were in your childhood. I used to ask a lot of questions of my mother and father. Some of them were weird for my age, so my parents used to divert the talk or tell me some fantasy stories. One of the biggest fantasies I heard in childhood was about a pregnant woman having a child in her stomach because everybody told me different reasons and types of the same. Someone said a new guest will come from heaven, or if somebody has died, they used to say it's coming back! All the Way Home took me back to those moments. I was just like Rufus (almost all of you were like that, I believe). I used to ask questions about every new thing I saw. I remember attending the funeral of my aunt when I was 7, and I had no idea how to behave there. Everyone around me was crying, and I was confused about how to stay calm and not cry. After growing mature, I realised that they were crying because someone close to them has died, has left them forever, and they will never be able to see him again. This film is a testament to all the situations any child and any mother have to go through. The world does not stop after somebody's death, and you have to carry on with their memories. All The Way Home will take you home to realise all these things without any complex or strained theories, but with full simplicity. Jean Simmons, you beauty! And Michael Kearney, you have my heart. Thank you Alex Segal for a film that I would like to show my children in the future.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Simplicity at its smoothest and best in the family drama genre. Ever had a death in the family? Here's your story, then. All the Way Home is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which was adopted from "A Death In the Family." Though I haven't read the novel, what I gathered from the basic plot made me make up my mind about the fact that the play did more justice to the story. It takes you into the small family of a man, his wife, and their 6-year-old son. That kid is what I was or what you were in your childhood. I used to ask a lot of questions of my mother and father. Some of them were weird for my age, so my parents used to divert the talk or tell me some fantasy stories. One of the biggest fantasies I heard in childhood was about a pregnant woman having a child in her stomach because everybody told me different reasons and types of the same. Someone said a new guest will come from heaven, or if somebody has died, they used to say it's coming back! All the Way Home took me back to those moments. I was just like Rufus (almost all of you were like that, I believe). I used to ask questions about every new thing I saw. I remember attending the funeral of my aunt when I was 7, and I had no idea how to behave there. Everyone around me was crying, and I was confused about how to stay calm and not cry. After growing mature, I realised that they were crying because someone close to them has died, has left them forever, and they will never be able to see him again. This film is a testament to all the situations any child and any mother have to go through. The world does not stop after somebody's death, and you have to carry on with their memories. All The Way Home will take you home to realise all these things without any complex or strained theories, but with full simplicity. Jean Simmons, you beauty! And Michael Kearney, you have my heart. Thank you Alex Segal for a film that I would like to show my children in the future.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.