Moxie Mocha’s Musings

Summary:
“October Sky” (1999) is about a young boy, Homer Hickam, in the 1950’s West Virginia’s coal mining region. The main character’s father is the coal mine supervisor. He was expected to work in the coal mine after high school. Yet, he has aspirations to go to college and to go to space. With the guidance [...]

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“The Story of the Weeping Camel” (2004) was about a family who lives in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. They raise camels and sheep. There was a camel who gave birth to a white camel, which is a rarity. However, the mother rejects the baby camel. Family tried everything to convince the mother to bond [...]

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Goodbye Lenin (2003)
Summary
The young man grew up in East Germany. His mother had a heart attack just when East Germans were protesting which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. She then went into coma for eight months. She missed all of the changes during that time. So the son decided to keep everything [...]

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Original Sin (2001)
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A man from Havana, Cuba meets his mail-order bride from Wilmington, Delaware. The bride turns out to be an actress pretending to be her. The real bride was murdered. The man doesn’t know about it until she runs away with his money. He finds her and brings her back. The private investigator searches [...]

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“The Proof” (2005) was directed by John Maddon. Gywenth Paltrow played Catherine, the daughter of the famous but disturbed mathematics professor in Chicago. The movie began on Catherine’s 27th birthday. Her father (Anthony Hopkins) just died of aneurysm a few days before. She lived with him for five years, and took care of him. [...]

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I’ve seen all three Pirates movies this week. I planned to watch the third one at the movie theatre, since it was open captioned. My friends and colleagues informed me that I need to watch the first two in order to understand the third movie. Luckily, I was able to watch the first movie on [...]

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Julio and his friend, Tenoch, were making plans for the summer. Julio is from the lower class; Tenoch’s father has a position with the Mexican government. They were into drugs and booze. At the wedding, they met a woman, Luisa, wife of Tenoch’s cousin. She joined them on a road trip to a made up [...]

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I recently got “Dreamcatcher” in the mail from Blockbuster.com. Somehow that movie got into my queue. I am not a fan of Stephen King, nor will I ever be. (Sorry Stephen King fans!) I watched the movie anyway. I never read any of his horror books; I have started to read the Dark Towers series. [...]

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