Uncross the Stars

So as many of my readers, the whole 10 of you, I get actor addicted. I get interested in an actor and I watch everything I can with them in it. A few months ago it was Ralph Fiennes and Lee Pace, I find it is a good way to watch films I would normally have missed. Every once and a while I find some really good movies that I missed. A lot of the time they are little independent films that no one has heard of, I love those! Well this month it was Ron Perlman, yes Hellboy himself. I started when I saw Season of the Witch, I loved his character. I have Hellboy I and II and I watch them all the time. I love comic book movies, I blame my dad who was a comic book collector. Like father like daughter....or something like that. ANYWAYS (sorry it's 1am I'm very distracted) I found this independent movie called Uncross the Stars and I loved it!

Before I get started I should really make the point to tell you, it's INDEPENDENT. It has that typical feel, a lot of dialog and focus on the story. Sometimes it runs a bit slow but the emotion is well worth the wait. With that in mind let's dig into this fantastic story about love and loss. The story is about Troy and learning to live after his wife dies. He is a young man and after she dies he gets a letter from her. In the letter his wife tells him to go to his aunt Hilda's, played by Barbara Hershey, and build her a porch. So he takes this journey to his aunt's place in the desert, it looks like maybe Arizona.

When he arrives he starts to learn more about himself and his family. He meets Hilda's neighbor Bobby, played by Ron Perlman, and he takes Troy under his wing. He offers to help build and through the film we understand that there is tension with a hint of romance between Bobby and Hilda.

In the film we also get to see what life as a senior is in a retired village. Troy learns that living each day is important and not to miss out on any opportunities. Bobby teaches Troy about love and that there is True Love and Love at First Sight. We find out that love can travel through time and death. It can bring people together and celebrate the memories of those we have lost.

I loved it but I'm a helpless romantic like that! So I give it an A- because even though most people might not care for it, I adored it.