This trailer is from the 1993 film Searching For Bobby Fischer. It is based on the true story of child chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, from the book of the same name written by his father in 1988. It's hard to get your hands on today, but this movie is definitely worth seeking out; it's truly a family film, intelligent and with heart-something which is as scarce as hen's teeth these days.
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My nephew (holding the cross) speaking at his school's Remembrance Day ceremony: ![]() Today I'll be attending a Remembrance Day service with some of the family, paying tribute to those who fought and died for our country and for the liberty we enjoy. Freedom is never free. The clip below is from The Best Years Of Our Lives, an excellent and honest film about three men returning home after W.W. II and struggling to reintegrate into civilian life. Made in 1946, just one year after the end of the war, it is a realistic- and sympathetic- portrayal of the difficulties faced by many soldiers returning home and trying to pick up the threads of their previous lives. One of these men is Al Stephenson (Frederic March), returning from serving as a platoon sergeant to his loving family and job at the local bank, where his desire to help war veterans get back on their feet clashes with the bank's strict loan policies. Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) was an air force captain during the war. Now suffering from flashbacks of bombing runs, he returns to find jobs scarce and is forced to work at his old job in the drugstore/soda shop where his immediate boss is the dweeb who used to work under him and got promoted while everyone else was off fighting in the war. Worse, the wife Derry married in haste right before he shipped out enjoyed being married to an honoured- and distant- war hero, but she doesn't have much time for a husband in a dead end job who is suffering from PTSD... she tells him to "snap out of it." The third man is Homer Parrish, former high school quarterback who got engaged to the girl next door- Wilma- before joining the navy. When his ship was torpedoed, Homer's hands were severely burned and had to be amputated. On his return, Wilma's feelings for him are unchanged, but Homer doesn't think that she should be saddled with a husband who has such a disability and tries to push her away. Parrish is played by Harold Russell, who actually did lose both of his hands in a training accident during the war.
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