![]() ![]() ![]() The movie’s sincerity carries it along, and makes this story endearing despite its filmmaking clichés. ![]() Time has robbed Blume’s subjects of shock value, but her perceptiveness hasn’t dimmed. Her twenty-eight books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Stevenson is wonderful as Bitsy as part of her job, she shows off A-bomb replicas, and her pained expression when Davey’s brother points out the Hiroshima death toll is like a cosmetics saleslady being told her skin cream causes acne. Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. The interest comes from the script, which allows many characters some unsolved prickliness. There is also one of those breathy folk-ish soundtracks to which indie filmmakers are inexplicably addicted. ![]() It is a blandly shot movie, with pretty actors brooding in front of pretty scenery. There Davey meets a young Native American man called Wolf (Tatanka Means), and begins to move past her grief. Her shattered mother (Amy Jo Johnson) drags Davey and her young brother to stay with Aunt Bitsy (Cynthia Stevenson) in Los Alamos, NM. “Tiger Eyes,” directed by Blume’s son Lawrence from a script they co-wrote, concerns Davey (Willa Holland of “Gossip Girl”), whose father was killed during a robbery at his small shop in Atlantic City. But she’s no cynic, and this, the first movie made from one of her popular novels shares her notion that most of us are doing our best. Judy Blume made her name in the 1970s writing young-adult books that dealt with hard topics - puberty, bullying, divorce. ![]()
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