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Date: 2007-09-17
Lost classic but still relevant
I was a Peace Corps volunteer high school teacher in Central Africa in the early 1980s, and Conrack comes closer than any film I have seen to capturing that kind of inimitable life-altering experience. I show the film (VHS only, alas) every year to my first-year college students, many of whom will become teachers themselves, as an inspirational example of how to become your own best resource for imaginative teaching, even in this electronic age. As I predicted, THEY LOVE IT!! WHY OH WHY is this film not yet on DVD? We must start a campaign to pressure the studio to transfer this gem as it deserves. Rating:
Date: 2007-08-01
absolutely Voight's best performance
It is hard to whittle down the best of the best of these tour-de-force performers, but Conrack HAS to be either 1 or 2 TOPS of Voight's career. Stunning, captivating, stirring, thought-provoking...if I haven't given you enough adjectives, you are not worthy of watching....one of the Best of the best. Rating:
Date: 2007-04-16
A little-known classic starring the young John Voight
Based on Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel "The Water is Wide", this seldom-seen film is well deserving of a DVD issue from the only current available VHS release of this 1974 film starring a very young John Voight in the lead role. Set during the height of the Vietnam War, he plays a teacher sent to a tiny island elementary school, where he finds a group of young black students deemed as "slow" by their parents and peers, the principal in charge of the school, and his great nemesis, the school superintendant, brilliantly played by Hume Cronyn, who ultimately fires him for his insubordination in teaching the kids too well. Definitely one of Voight's greatest roles ever, this beautiful film should not be missed. Rating:
Date: 2007-01-26
"Against-all-odds" teacher on a time-forgotten island
EDUCATOR'S OF THE WORLD....WATCH THIS FILM IF YOU ARE THINKING OF THROWING IN THE TOWEL!!!!If you liked THE HISTORY BOYS,DEAD POET'S SOCIETY,THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE,EMPEROR'S CLUB or FREEDOM WRITERS,then you will love CONRACK.Teaching is a tough profession,and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.What Pat Conroy undertook to educate the disenfranchised and forgotten black children on a small island a stone's throw from the white elite cities of Beaufort,Savannah and Charleston will amaze and astound.Jon Voight captures the screen with his performance as the "against-all-odds" teacher Pat Conroy (later author of PRINCE OF TIDES).What I find still sad at the time of this review is that similar conditions in educational racial lines still exist (and I am a Northerner!)The only knock with this film is the director Martin Ritt's choice of using some of the white Beaufort townsfolk for very minor roles.They are perfectly stiff and downright laughable!!!!Other than that,this film should not be missed by anyone. Rating:
Date: 2007-01-20
Wonderful.
I don't know how this jon Voight movie went unseen by me untill today. A very poignant film.
In the 1960's, a young white teacher, (jon), arrives by ferry to his new assignment; teach illiterate black children, in a one room schoolhouse on an island, while overcoming the stubborn ways that the residents have of doing things. On the mainland he finds some kindness, as well as meanness, and prejudice, (they also think that his hair is too long).
You will love all of the children and think of them. Crying is permitted. |
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