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I just finished watching the movie "Sleepers," which is wonderful! It's about four boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen (Manhattan) together. They accidentally hurt a man and get sent to a juvenile reform school for boys. There they are abused terribly. Flash forward several years, and two of the boys run into one of the guards from the school, unearthing their painful past and setting in motion a plan for revenge.

It feels like two separate movies - it was even split in two, one half on each side of the disc - because you have the four young boys (aged about 10) and then you have these four gorgeous young men, one of whom is played by Brad Pitt (!!!) and all of whom are very, very pretty *g* I fully enjoyed both halves for different reasons. The friendship between the four is a very strong thread that ties the entire thing together. The sense that these were four good boys who were irrevocably altered and damaged by their experiences was very strong and poignant. All the performances were very good, particularly Robert De Niro, Jason Patric, and of course Brad. Brad looked all young and fresh faced, though I couldn't quite shake the images of Louis from Interview With the Vampire, because he was very pale here, with large blue eyes, full flushed lips, and a vein actually visible in his cheek. Mmph. I loved the ending, with the four young men reunited and happy one more time, and including the line from their friend Carol, "What is this, a gay bar?" ♥♥ Awesome. And very bittersweet, though I don't want to give anything away.

Amusing fact - Jonathan Tucker, Tommy from The Black Donnellys, plays one of the young boys and looks about 8 years old. He's tiny and pale and freckly and adorable!

In conclusion, see this movie! It's quite good. Thanks for reccing it to me Neb!

Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon!

I saw OotP again, YAYE. It was just as mindblowingly fantastic this time around, if slightly less awe-inspiring on a normal sized screen compared to IMAX *g* I did see it with two friends this time instead of alone, and that was lots of fun. There was a lot of giggling. The crowd was... interesting. There was a girl behind us who had the most ludicrous laugh - it sounded kind of like deep honking. She laughed a lot when Umbridge was doing her shtick at the beginning, and Kelly and I were just DYING of laughter FROM THE GIRL'S LAUGHTER. It was supremely distracting. Thankfully she didn't do it any more later. Another hilarious thing was when Luna said "We fly, of course." these two young girls in front of us immediately echoed the line in unison. IT WAS SO FUNNY. Me and my friends were dying of giggles for a few minutes afterwards. Hee! Certainly spiced things up a bit.

My thoughts remain pretty much the same. This isn't a movie that particularly NEEDS a second viewing, but there's nothing lost by knowing how it goes, either. It's simply joy from beginning to end.

I have such a passionate love affair with both Sirius and Remus right now, and thusly I have commenced rereading Shoebox! I swear I teared up with joy when I pulled up the first chapter - I love this story with a huge damn chunk of my heart. Actually more than the novels themselves, to be quite honest. I look forward to immersing myself in this story for a good long while. Sirius and Remus Maturity Lupin-Black, I love you! ♥