Movie: Tom Sawyer (1973), Rated GDate Watched: April 2, 2009
Stars Your Parents May Know: Jodie Foster, Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair)
Recommendation: ★★☆☆☆
Treats Served: MoonPies from Jake. (Every month, Jake's grandfather sends him a box full of goodies. This month he got Moon Pies and Cheetos. Jake's mom snuck some MoonPies out for us so she doesn't eat them.) Read about the birth of MoonPies and how they were named.
Summary: Based on the book by Mark Twain, this musical adaptation is about an adventurous Tom Sawyer who gets in trouble almost every time he leaves his house. Tom Sawyer witnesses a murder and it puts him in danger.
Review: About five minutes into the movie they started singing. This is when I figured out it was a musical. I thought it was going to be one of those other boring musicals and it kind of was. It wasn't filled with singing and there was no dancing, but when I read the book I didn't think there would be singing.
The movie used most of the adventures that the book had, but not all. I didn't expect Tom Sawyer to have red hair.
My mom and dad are sort of teaching me what some words in the movie mean. These are the ones I am learning:
Philanderer: someone who flirts with women who are not their wives.
Tom's "fiance" Becky calls Tom a philanderer when she finds out he was ''engaged'' to someone before her. This is funny because they are 11 years old!
Uncouth: rude and uncivilized.
Tom's Aunt Polly called his friend, Huckleberry Finn, uncouth because he never wore shoes, smoked a pipe and never washed.
Cavort: to hang around and have fun with.
Aunt Polly doesn't like Tom Sawyer cavorting with Huckleberry Finn because she thought he was a bad influence. I would like a friend like Huckleberry Finn because he's adventurous.
If anyone wants to borrow my kid's version of Tom Sawyer, I recommend reading that, but not watching the movie. Watch the trailer and you decide.
Patchy's Favorite Part: "When the girl be friends with the boy and when the boy and the other boy be friends again." (Patchy is talking about when Tom Sawyer becomes friends again with both Becky and Huckleberry Finn.)
hi sam!
ReplyDeletepersonally i cannot see tom sawyer as a musical and i would probably been more interested in the moon pies!!!
jodie foster has grown up to be quite a well respected actress and director but johnny whitaker, i am not so sure about. i only remember him as the brother "jodee" in family affair...buffy, jodee, sissy, uncle bill, mr. french and of course, mrs beslee.
tom and i just watched a movie from 1995 Dutch movie called Antonia's Line. it won the oscar for best foreign film in 1995 and i can see why it did. it was a great story of life in a small dutch farming village after WW II. now, tom is outside mending our fence from winter damage (not so unlike a farmer himself!)
give everyone a hug from all of us here in elk rapids. we all enjoy your movie reviews very much!
~~marianne
Jodee here, as in Jodee Taylor: I am so tickled that Marianne spelled Jody from Family Affair's name like I spell mine. I am over the moon. And I remember having a HUGE crush on the kid who played Huck in this movie.
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