3 1/2 POTATOES Out of Five
Potato scoring method: When I was a little girl I LOVED MASHED POTATOES. Mom made them all rich and lumpy with lots of cream and butter. Sometimes the potatoes came from Grandma Lizzy’s cellar. It smelled musty and hosted its resident black snake, but that didn’t diminish the cellar’s importance.
The lumpiness of the potatoes—made possible from a hand potato masher–only added to the glorious mystique that accompanied the warm fuzzy feeling I got upon consuming. To me the lumps equaled little islands of satisfaction amidst a sea of potato goodness. Complete contentment.
So, intelligence reasons that FIVE POTATOES would represent near perfection. Or close.
A Rumor of Angels gets 3 ½ potatoes. I LOVED it. The only reason it didn’t get Five Potatoes is because they took the Lord’s name in vain. It did have other smatterings of swearing; I could have lived with that considering the powerful message of the movie.
Based on the book “Thy Son Liveth—A Message From A Son To His Mother” by Grace Duffie Boylan–A Rumor of Angels came out in 2001 starring Vanessa Redgrave and Trevor Morgan. A crusty isolated old woman (Maddy Bennett) comes out of her seclusion to set right a young boy (James Neubauer) who had crashed into and broken her fence on his bicycle. Maddy’s no nonsense approach reaches through James’ antagonistic shield and finds that his core issue mirrors her own: grief. The loss of his mother and the loss of her son resonates between them and together they fight their way through despair, loneliness and the issue of angels.
Do they exist or don’t they? Did Maddy have a relationship with her son after he died or was it fiction? This question leads James on a turbulent path where he not only finds answers but a trusting and loving family.
I not only believe in angels; I’ve encountered them. How about you…where do you stand on these Heavenly Beings?