The Cider House Rules
One of my favorite movies is The Cider House Rules, starring Michael Caine, Charlize Theron, and Tobey Maguire.
It is based on the book by John Irving, and John Irving also wrote the movie script.
The title is wonderful and significant.
The official tagline and plot for this movie are so off the mark:
Tagline: story about how far we must travel to find the place where we belong.
Plot Outline: compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Frankly, whoever wrote the tagline and plot outline didn’t have a clue as to what the movie is really about.
If I were writing the tagline, I would say it’s a story about being out of the box, for it is a story of being your own person and about many kinds of love in unexpected places and making your own rules.
The movie takes place in Maine in the early forties when there were still orphanages. Orphanages had a bad rep, but, oh, in this orphanage — in this orphanage, the children loved and were loved. And more than that!
You know how God in Heavenletters™ so often says we don’t know who we are, that we’ve been taught that we’re not much? Not in this orphanage. Not here.
Dr. Larch (Michael Caine), the director of the orphanage, would read to the children after they were tucked into bed, and when he left the room, he said good night to the children this way: “Goodnight, you princes of Maine. You kings of New England.”
Can you imagine growing up and being told you are a royal being? What would our world be like then?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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