First of all, writing credit should go the 1954 novel The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow. Jane Fonda plays Gertie Nevels, a Kentucky mountain lady who happens to whittle. In fact, she has started whittling a head of Jesus Christ, but she hasn't finished it yet. Her husband got a World War II-era job in Detroit at Flint Motors. Flint Motors? Well, Ford starts with an "F", and General Motors has a plant in Flint, Michigan, and this is fiction, so Flint Motors is used as a generic composite, got it? Gertie's family is up in Detroit now, but one boy wants to go back to Kentucky, and there's a very sad incident with a little girl. Gertie's husband says the Bible says the man should be the head of the family, but Gertie is forced to act as the head of the family. This is a pretty good family film.
Review of The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker
(1984 TV Movie)
Makes a spiritual statement if you can figure out what it means.
12 May 2005