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Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

bmk8 *** This review may contain spoilers for 'It's A Wonderful Life' as well as for 'Doonby' *** In 'It's A Wonderful Life' the lesson George Bailey learns is 'every life is worth living'. In 'Doonby' the lesson is 'even 'unwanted' children will grow up to save lives and become talented, successful musicians'. In 'It's A Wonderful Life' we see the support of the loving family George Bailey grew up in, and can easily understand how he came to be the man he is. In 'Doonby' they never show how he went from being abandoned at an orphanage by his mother at a very young age, to being the totally well-adjusted adult he becomes.In 'It's A Wonderful Life' an Angel uses magic to show George Bailey what Bedford Falls would have been without him. In Bedford Falls with George Bailey in it, everyone knows him, and in the Bedford Falls without George Bailey, no one knows him. But when Doonby exists, he is unable to shake the hand of Laura's father – how can Doonby exist and at the same time hate Laura's father for aborting him? Not only is the magic hidden until the very end, but the world with Doonby and the world without Doonby seem to have been blended together without explanation. It is like a paradoxical and half-finished script for a 'Twilight Zone' episode.Small wonder I did not see that coming. Who would have guessed the lesson would be so absurd – much less that it would not be directed at any of the characters but at the audience instead. Nothing that happens in the movie is even known to any of the characters except Laura. Laura is the only one who learns the lesson, and she is not pregnant. So the entire story was not about the characters, but about what the film makers want the audience to learn – a clumsy, manipulative, and incoherent breaking the fourth wall.If 'It's A Wonderful Life' and 'The Twilight Zone' had a baby, 'Doonby' would be it. And this baby should never have been born.

stevepat99 On top of that... plot holes you can drive trucks through. Here is 'thought provoking'... one 10-star reviewer's words of wisdom are: all people have value and make a difference. I am guessing that reviewer's 'list' includes such as Mother Theresa, George Bush (W), the Koch brothers and Shirley Temple. To be 'Fair and Balanced' one should add to that list such as Hitler, Ted Bundy, Putin and Stalin. Most of these nice fellows 'had value and made a difference' to their followers.And how many fellow Americans feel they have little or no value and make little or no difference since they can not support and feed their families on minimum wage and because so many fellow citizens wish to strip them of the first ever access to medical care they have ever enjoyed in their adult lives.If you are up for a stealth, right wing, religious/political agenda film this one's for YOU!

ruth nordenbrook This movie is an anti-abortion fantasy piece. The acting was terrible. The story was disjointed and did not hang together even in the context of its "look what would have been" evangelical message. John Schneider was particularly bad--stilted and wooden. It was pretty apparent early on that there was something weird going on in this movie, and I don't mean the Superman Sam action. It was set in a small Texas town but though there were drunks and promiscuous women, the F word never once passed anyone's lips. The hero, a big aw shucks kind of guy who is pure in heart and mind sees a woman riding in a Mercedes with her hair blowing in the wind and is instantly smitten with her. He has eyes for no one else despite the fact that many women are lusting for him and she is a spoiled rich drunk. The worst person in the movie was a knife-loving homicidal maniac from guess where? You got it, New York City.I think the user reviews will tend to break down along ideological lines although I saw one that thought the story & message engaging while agreeing with me about the disjointed nature of the film. Putting aside my disagreement with the movie's ideology, it was aesthetically a badly made and badly acted film. I wasted $8.50 (I'm a senior who went to a neighborhood theater) and a nice Sunday afternoon. Don't make the same mistake.

Catherine Billiam Straight up, this an anti-choice film. And you realize that in the last 10 seconds of the movie. For the other hour and a half you're assaulted with bad acting, and even a guest appearance by the plaintiff in roe v wade. All major women characters were"whores." Whoever wrote the script has serious issues with women. The movie is propaganda and I shouldn't have to pay money to see a commercial.Aside from the heavy abortion stance that this movie slams you with at the end, really the whole thing was badly written with a hero who helps people, the whore who is bad, and the African-American nanny who let's babies get run over by trucks (?!?!). So the movie is bad the whole way through and I was wondering what the point would be at the end and then, wow, it's just a big message to hammer me in the face with.If you want to have your 'pro-life' views affirmed by a low budget basically terrible movie, this might be for you. If you somehow are undecided about the abortion issue, and you want a painfully oversimplified story to make you feel bad about having the hero die in utero, then you might like this movie. Anyone else, stay far far away.