Friday, December 6, 2013

Out of the Furnace into the Oscars


Wanted a good movie for a snow day so we went to see "Out of the Furnace" (Steel Mill reference).
This is NOT a Christmas Movie BUT it is an Academy Award level movie.  IT IS also a very hard movie and a hard "R" (profanity and violence).

The story is about two bad luck brothers trying to survive in a blue collar world. One brother (Christian Bale) tries to do what's right, but his brother (Casey Affleck) can't fond his way after 4 tours of Iraq.  The cast is so strong with bad guy (Woody Harrelson), uncle (Sam Shephard), policeman (Forrest Whitaker), bar owner (Willem Defoe) and girlfriend (Zoe Saldana).  This is a serious movie and so real that it seemed that we were watching real life. The director was also great.

2013 Movie #51, **** star       For serious movie buffs. It is an Oscar rich project.
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