I'm just not buying it. This whole Hallmark movie was a cheap attempt at showing the age old "country life versus city life" dynamic. I'm not saying that city folk aren't greedy criminals, there are plenty of those, nor am I saying that country folk aren't happy with simplicity; I'm saying this movie poured it on extra thick.
Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier) was an old carpenter living in a rural part of Georgia. A developer wanted to buy his land to build a mall or some such thing. Noah wasn't selling. The developer's next move was to get his psychoanalyst girlfriend, Dr. Valerie Crane (Mary-Louise Parker), to deem Noah mentally unfit thereby shifting the control of his property to the county. If that's how things work in real life, then we have one screwed up system here in this country.
"Hey, you're crazy, now we can take your property."
How would such a law get onto the books in even the most corrupt county?
Valerie went to visit Noah with her boyfriend's goals in mind, but was so awed by Noah's lifestyle her intentions changed. I get that the boyfriend fooled her to get her to go to see Noah, but she still knew that his concerns were never about Noah, but about money, yet she still did his bidding. She's a doctor that's supposed to care about people, so why couldn't she see the money angle in all of this.
Naturally, she came to see the error of her ways and became a hero by the time it was all said and done. She got to use her doctor title and fancy language to get Noah released from the mental hospital.
Yes, Noah, a sane man, was committed by the wave of a magic wand. The developer got some "doctors" to lie and say that Noah was a danger to himself thereby having him forcibly removed from his property and taken to a psych-ward for evaluation. Again, I ask, "How is this possible?" What doctors act upon the word of a developer and have people committed?
This movie was coming off as real ageist and racist because the victim in all of this was an older Black man.
The developer's last play was to break ground around Noah's property so as to rattle him. They were breaking ground on a project that couldn't even be completed because they hadn't acquired all of the necessary land. Again, "How is that possible?" I mean, who does that? Who issues building permits to developers who don't even have all the land needed to build?
In the end Noah was the victor. I guess you had to like his character because of how good he was. I didn't. He was an Uncle Tom to me. I don't mean Uncle Tom as is commonly understood, I mean Uncle Tom as he truly was in the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He was so quiet, docile, and saintly it annoyed me. He hardly had a human emotion and the townsfolk revered him as though he was the son of God. I don't like Mary Sue characters, male or female, books or movies, so Noah Dearborn was no exception.
Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier) was an old carpenter living in a rural part of Georgia. A developer wanted to buy his land to build a mall or some such thing. Noah wasn't selling. The developer's next move was to get his psychoanalyst girlfriend, Dr. Valerie Crane (Mary-Louise Parker), to deem Noah mentally unfit thereby shifting the control of his property to the county. If that's how things work in real life, then we have one screwed up system here in this country.
"Hey, you're crazy, now we can take your property."
How would such a law get onto the books in even the most corrupt county?
Valerie went to visit Noah with her boyfriend's goals in mind, but was so awed by Noah's lifestyle her intentions changed. I get that the boyfriend fooled her to get her to go to see Noah, but she still knew that his concerns were never about Noah, but about money, yet she still did his bidding. She's a doctor that's supposed to care about people, so why couldn't she see the money angle in all of this.
Naturally, she came to see the error of her ways and became a hero by the time it was all said and done. She got to use her doctor title and fancy language to get Noah released from the mental hospital.
Yes, Noah, a sane man, was committed by the wave of a magic wand. The developer got some "doctors" to lie and say that Noah was a danger to himself thereby having him forcibly removed from his property and taken to a psych-ward for evaluation. Again, I ask, "How is this possible?" What doctors act upon the word of a developer and have people committed?
This movie was coming off as real ageist and racist because the victim in all of this was an older Black man.
The developer's last play was to break ground around Noah's property so as to rattle him. They were breaking ground on a project that couldn't even be completed because they hadn't acquired all of the necessary land. Again, "How is that possible?" I mean, who does that? Who issues building permits to developers who don't even have all the land needed to build?
In the end Noah was the victor. I guess you had to like his character because of how good he was. I didn't. He was an Uncle Tom to me. I don't mean Uncle Tom as is commonly understood, I mean Uncle Tom as he truly was in the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He was so quiet, docile, and saintly it annoyed me. He hardly had a human emotion and the townsfolk revered him as though he was the son of God. I don't like Mary Sue characters, male or female, books or movies, so Noah Dearborn was no exception.