A picture about mans' humanity to his fellow man-very Capraesque

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2000)

Up until last night I had viewed a lot of mediocre to decent pictures made in 1999, but nothing had hit me the way that Titanic did in '97 and Shakespeare in Love in '98. Then I saw "The Hurricane" and now we have a movie worthy of being called "The Best Picture of the Year". I'm sure it will come down to a battle between Hurricane and Beauty, but I personally see this as no contest. Beauty was a very good film which I enjoyed, but not best picture of the year as far as I'm concerned. Denzel Washington will easily win best actor and I'm sure the film will get many other nominations. I think the time of the movie listed is inaccurate for it was surely closer to 2:30 than 2 hours, but never a boring minute and my eyes were all welled up for the last hour of the movie. Do not miss this wonderful movie!!!