Today’s movie is a drama with a scene that happens on
October 3. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
A PAINTED HOUSE
In 1952 in eastern Arkansas Eli “Pappy” Chandler,
grandfather to Luke hires the Spruills, a family of hill people and some
Mexican migrants to pick cotton. Luke’s father Jesse and his wife Kathleen
worry about debt and his brother Ricky, who’s in the Army in the ongoing Korean
War. Luke develops a crush on 17 year old Tally Spruill. Her brother Hank
verbally abuses Luke. They go to town and a fight breaks out between some of
the hill people and the Sisco brothers. With Luke watching Hank intervenes in
the fight and using a board beats one of the Siscos so badly he later dies. The
sheriff comes looking for Hank. Luke is too intimidated by Hank to say what he
saw, so Hank is not arrested. Later Hank and one of the Mexicans called Cowboy
get into a huge fight after a baseball game. Jesse’s cousin Jimmy Dale comes to
visit with his new Yankee bride, who’s disdainful of their lifestyle. Jimmy
Dale talks about how much he is making working for GM in Detroit. Luke and
Talley spy on the birth of a child to Libby Latcher, that she later says was
fathered by Luke’s uncle Ricky. Someone secretly starts painting the Chandler’s
house. Tally and Cowboy develop a romantic relationship. On October 3, 1952
[59:34 to1:01:20] on another trip to town Luke sees TV for the first time,
watching game 3 of the 1952 World Series. Upon hearing that the sheriff is
coming to arrest him, Hank leaves but
spots Tally and Cowboy together. The two fight and Cowboy kills Hank. Luke sees
the fight. Cowboy tells him if he ever talks he will return and kill Luke’s
mother, so he says nothing. Cowboy and Tally run off to Chicago together. It
starts raining continuously, so the rest of the cotton can’t be harvested. The
Spruills leave and the Chandlers and the Mexicans just about finish painting
the house. Luke tells his Grandfather
about Hank’s death, but they decide never to tell anyone. Jesse Chandler takes
a job in Detroit and they leave to start a new life.
Another good coming-of-age story.
Luke has to grow up fast in this film. Good local color gives you a sense of
really being there.
100 Years of the World Series by Eric Enders (Barnes
& Noble Books, 2003) at page 129 gives the game date
Awards -. Nominated for Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing
for a Miniseries or a
Movie Emmy at the 55th Primetime Emmy
Awards.
Producer – Gordon Wolf
Director – Alfonso Arau
Narrator – John Grisham
Screenplay – Patrick Sheane Duncan
Runtime – 1 hour 37 minutes
Released – April 27, 2003
Starring –
Scott Glenn as Eli “Pappy” Chandler
Arija Bareikis as Kathleen Chandler
Robert Sean Leonard as Jesse Chandler
Melinda Dillon as Gran Chandler
Logan Lerman as Luke Chandler
Audrey Marie Anderson as Tally Spruill
Pablo Schreiber as Hank Spruill
Luis Garcia as Cowboy
Copyright by Ivan Walters in
2014.
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