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Come Away
An imaginative, original story of two of the most beloved characters in literature – Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland - eight-year-old Alice, her mischievous brother Peter and their brilliant older sibling David let their imaginations run wild one blissful summer in the English countryside.
Encouraged by their parents Jack and Rose, the kids' make-believe tea parties, sword fights and pirate ship adventures come to an abrupt end when tragedy strikes.
Peter, eager to prove himself a hero to his grief-stricken and financially-struggling parents, journeys with Alice to London, where they try to sell a treasured heirloom to the sinister pawnshop owner known as C.J.
Returning home, Alice seeks temporary refuge in a wondrous rabbit hole while Peter permanently escapes reality by entering a magical realm as leader of the "Lost Boys."
Grandchildren might enjoy it.
 

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Life Of Fli - On TV​
 
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

An excellent reenactment of that college admissions bribery scandal in 2019, the one that got rich and famous people busted for using bribes to get their kids' into top universities. The film maker used transcripts from actual tapped phone calls to write the script, and the film includes interviews with the FBI and IRS agents who did the investigation, and some of the actual people involved are in it, too.

This film put a huge spotlight on how, despite their ability to buy almost anything, rich people cheat. So that their dumb kids get into exactly the prestigious college they want them to get into, they knowingly do illegal things, and to hell with the parents who had to scrimp all their adult lives to save up tuition for their kids, and the kids who genuinely studied and worked their butts off for four to six years, hoping to be accepted at the college of their dreams.

This film made me freaking angry, but it was really good. I'm glad I watched it.
 
Murrmurr said:
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

An excellent reenactment of that college admissions bribery scandal in 2019, the one that got rich and famous people busted for using bribes to get their kids' into top universities. The film maker used transcripts from actual tapped phone calls to write the script, and the film includes interviews with the FBI and IRS agents who did the investigation, and some of the actual people involved are in it, too.

This film put a huge spotlight on how, despite their ability to buy almost anything, rich people cheat. So that their dumb kids get into exactly the prestigious college they want them to get into, they knowingly do illegal things, and to hell with the parents who had to scrimp all their adult lives to save up tuition for their kids, and the kids who genuinely studied and worked their butts off for four to six years, hoping to be accepted at the college of their dreams.

This film made me freaking angry, but it was really good. I'm glad I watched it.
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I always wondered, @Murrmurr, about the possible "rest of the story" on these kids who's parents bought their place at a prestigious university. You might get in but you still gotta do the work and pass the courses... how were they going to do that? Mommy and Daddy going to do their homework too?
 
CinnamonSugar said:
I always wondered, @Murrmurr, about the possible "rest of the story" on these kids who's parents bought their place at a prestigious university. You might get in but you still gotta do the work and pass the courses... how were they going to do that? Mommy and Daddy going to do their homework too?
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A lot of these kids will have legacy wealth and numerous connections to help them along. Not a bottomless well, mind you, but enough to get launched in style.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
I always wondered, @Murrmurr, about the possible "rest of the story" on these kids who's parents bought their place at a prestigious university. You might get in but you still gotta do the work and pass the courses... how were they going to do that? Mommy and Daddy going to do their homework too?
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They got in by faking the kid is an athlete in a fairly obscure sport like kayaking, water-soccer, badmitten, etc., but the kid would simply never show up for practice. Some guy was hired to take the entrance exam/SAT/ACT, and the parents would send photos of their kid to Rick Singer, the main baddie (his real name), and he'd use photo-shop to make it look like some kid who couldn't even swim was a water-soccer star...or whatever.

The kids had to go to classes, but obviously they cheated to get by. The film didn't say much about that end of it, probably because Stanford begged them not to...like maybe in exchange for contributing to the film; giving the film maker footage and doing on-screen interviews, stuff like that.

Cheating is rampant in expensive colleges and admin staff and faculty look the other way because rich kids' parents can make them lose their jobs. Famous colleges don't want you to know that.
 
You People on Netflix. It just came out today. Light entertainment. It was good to have a change from True Detective, Season 2 which we just finished. It was well done but heavy.
 
A Man Called Ove on Prime Video

The Movie, A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks, was based on the Swedish movie, A Man Called Ove, or maybe on the novel. The Swedish version was just okay, but it did have good characters and some funny moments. I haven't seen the Tom Hanks version.

My rating: 6.5 out of 10.
 
You may remember that I often watch more than one movie at a time, like they are episodic, returning to the next part [whenever]. But to satisfy my disaster movie fix, I'm watching Dante's Peak (Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton..1997) via Hulu and probably won't watch anything else until I finish it.
 

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