Great WWII-set movie, based on a novel, about a girl who is pregnant by a missing G.I. and sent off by her father to marry a farmer. Complications ensue as she had been a college student back home and doesn't take kindly to this forced marriage and stark existence. She befriends two Japanese-American females, both of whom also were in college before being turned into slaves, and this only causes more difficulties in the small rural community. Keri Russsell is serene in the lead role, and the usually goofy Skeet Ulrich -- second only to Keanu Reeves in the bad acting department-- makes a convincing farmer who tries to make a bad situation tolerable. A bit slow-going, but worth a watch by female viewers. Men should give it a wide berth. The ending is strictly out of a fairy tale and not in keeping with what has gone before. But what are you gonna do?
Review of The Magic of Ordinary Days
