Picky Flicks By Abbie: The Spitfire Grill

Picky Flicks Quote: A durable and devoted dramatic play that is...unassuming in its execution.

-Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye
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The Spitfire wicket is one of my favorite movies. Its quirky and quiet, redemptive yet bittersweet, and superbly acted. So, when I looked it up on rottentomatoes.com and discovered that it had earned only a 36% approval rating, I almost gasped. What? Exactly who were these critics kidding? Usually I agree with the critical consensus. I mean, after all, theres generally a pretty good reason for so many diverse people all coming to the corresponding conclusion that a movie is poorly enduree, badly acted, clumsily plotted, and so on. But in the case, I just dont get it.

Now, I have to concede that The Spitfire Grill doesnt bring much new to the wounded-stranger-with-a-dodgy-past-trying-to-fit-into-a-nosy-small-town genre (imagine that comment on a human action card at your topical anesthetic Hastings!), but Im utterly delicately with a lack of original material if the story feels trusty and the characters are genuinely renderedâ€"both of which are true in The Spitfire Grill. Granted, the ending is a bit on the melodramatic array (bring the tissues for sure), and the villain is a bit too broadly drawn, but still.



The essence of the film rings true.

The movies title refers to the local café in Gilead (as in, theres a unctuousness in), Maine, run by crotchety senior citizen, Hannah (Ellen Burstyn). When perhaps Talbott (Percy for short) slinks into town looking for a new start, Hannah reluctantly agrees to allow her help out at the grill. Its clear Percy has a past from the guarded expression in her eyes and the syllabic grunts she uses to communicate, but Hannahs not one to worry just about such things if the dishes get washed. Shes not exactly a people-person herself.

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