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Just as a little background on why this movie hit home for me.
For one, I grew up in the era, like Jack I was brought up by a single, divorced mom who had to get out of an abusive relationship.
Secondly, Robert De Niro and I knew each other as kids. His grandparents lived about 8 doors up from me and he used to spend time during the summers with them.
Thirdly, Tobias Wolff, who this movie was about professored at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997.
I don't know if I liked this more than maybe you will, but I thought it was very well done and captured a lot of what a kid from a broken family went through back in the fifties. Divorce was not as common as it is today and the norm was a two parent family unit.
Enjoy!
For one, I grew up in the era, like Jack I was brought up by a single, divorced mom who had to get out of an abusive relationship.
Secondly, Robert De Niro and I knew each other as kids. His grandparents lived about 8 doors up from me and he used to spend time during the summers with them.
Thirdly, Tobias Wolff, who this movie was about professored at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997.
I don't know if I liked this more than maybe you will, but I thought it was very well done and captured a lot of what a kid from a broken family went through back in the fifties. Divorce was not as common as it is today and the norm was a two parent family unit.
Enjoy!