Film:
The Wedding Dress (TV), 2001
Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Tyne Daly, Margaret Collin, and Kathryne Dora Brown.
Synopsis (From NetFlix):
A beautiful wedding dress moves throughout the six degrees of separation when it ends up in the hands of six different brides-to-be and changes their lives forever in ways they could never have expected. Tyne Daly and Neil [...]
Archive for December, 2008
The Wedding Dress (TV) — Hope and Expectations
Posted in Altruism, Comedy, Compassion, Cooperation, Creativity, Drama, Forgiveness, Generosity, Kindness, Love, Loyalty, Made for TV, Persistence, Romance/Romantic Comedy, Steadfastness, Trustworthiness, Unity, Wedding Dress, The, tagged Dreams, Film, Forgiveness, Hope, Kathryne Dora Brown, Love, Made for TV, Margaret Collin, marriage, Movies, Neil Patrick Harris, patience, Steadfastness, The, Tyne Daly, Unity, wedding, Wedding Dress on December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
P.S. I Love You — Life, Death, and Marriage
Posted in Drama, Kindness, Love, Loyalty, PS I Love You, Romance/Romantic Comedy, tagged actors, actresses, Baha'i Faith, Death, discussion, Dreams, Faith, Film, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Hilary Swank, Hope, James Marsters, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kathy Bates, Kisa Kudrow, Life, Love, marriage, Movies, PS I Love You, Religion, Thoughts on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Film:P.S. I Love You Poster
P.S. I Love You, 2007
Starring Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters, Kathy Bates, Harry Connick Jr., Nellie McKay, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
My Thoughts:
So often in film weddings we hear the lines echoed “until death do us part” but in both P.S. I Love You as well as in the Baha’i concept of marriage this is not the case. A true marriage is more than a physical union but is also a spiritual union. If a marriage is not a spiritual union then it is bound to end, which I discussed in my last post. But what if it is a true union? It lasts for eternity, beyond death….
The Women — Infidelity, Gossip, and Backbiting
Posted in Backbiting, Betrayal, Classic, Comedy, Drama, Gossip, Greed, Love, Women, The, tagged Backbiting, bahai, betrayal, enemies, Faith, Film, frenemies, friends, friendship, Gossip, infidelity, marriage, Movies, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, Women, The on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Film:
The Women, 1939
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Fontaine
Synopsis (from NetFlix):
George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale about battling and bonding that was edgy for its time — and is considered the ultimate women’s movie of the 1930s. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and other Hollywood leading ladies [...]
Dolores Claiborne — Prejudice, Justice, Truth, and Forgiveness
Posted in Betrayal, Dolores Claiborne, Drama, Forgiveness, tagged adaptation, Art, Baha'i Faith, bahai, Christopher Plummer, Faith, Film, Forgiveness, Hope, inspiration, John C. Reilly, justice, Kathy Bates, marriage, movie, Movies, philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Stephen King, Thoughts, tragedy on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Film:
Dolores Claiborne, 1995
Starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, and Judy Parfit.
Synopsis (from IMDB):
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly woman’s murder, Dolores’ daughter Selena returns from New York, where she has become a big-shot reporter. [...]
Slumdog Millionaire — Love Overcomes Adversity
Posted in Betrayal, Comedy, Compassion, Cooperation, Drama, Fear, Generosity, Greed, Hindi, Independent, Injustice, Loyalty, Persistence, Romance/Romantic Comedy, Slumdog Millionaire, Unity, tagged Art, bahai, betrayal, Destiny, Faith, Film, Forgiveness, Freedom, Generosity, Honesty, India, Journey, Movies, Poverty, Redemption, Religion, Slumdog Millionaire, Thoughts, Travel, Wealth, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Film:
Slumdog Millionaire, 2008
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, and Frieda Pinto
Synopsis (from Fox Searchlight Pictures):
The story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 [...]
