A Fine Film That Could Have Been Great

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2014)

An Emotionally Draining Film that is an Amazing Recreation of the Time Period. Its Greatest Flaw is its Enormous Length. It is Difficult to Maintain such High Melodrama for just Over Three Hours. It just Squeaks by with its Paranormality, Christ Analogies, and a bit of Humor from an Unbilled Mouse.
Captivating, Manipulative, and thoroughly Engaging, it is an Old-School Movie that has Depression Era Atmosphere and is Elevated by some really Fine Acting. The Stephen King Story is brought to the Screen with a Professional Swagger but is Never Pretentious. In Fact, it is rather Simplistic.
It's all Sentimentality with an Edge and Brutality through Belligerent Behavior. The whole Thing is Awesome the way it manages to be a Believable Fantasy. Kudos to the Production in General with its Cinematography, and Sets, Acting and Direction. It is a Fine Film and could have Arguably been a Great Film with just a Monicum of Restraint in its slightly Overblown Running Time.