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The Blue Butterfly (2004)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A terminally ill little boy helps an emotionally shuttered man reembrace life in the tender Canadian drama THE BLUE BUTTERFLY. Based on a true story, the film stars William Hurt as curmudgeonly... A terminally ill little boy helps an emotionally shuttered man reembrace life in the tender Canadian drama THE BLUE BUTTERFLY. Based on a true story, the film stars William Hurt as curmudgeonly entomologist Alan Osborne, who reluctantly agrees to help a 10-year-old, wheelchair-bound cancer patient, Pete Carlton (Marc Donato), catch a beautiful but elusive species of butterfly known as the Blue Morpho. Accompanied by Pete's mother, Teresa (Pascale Bussieres), the would-be collectors soon find themselves travelling to the lush rainforests of Costa Rica, where the dramatic jungle landscapes transform their near-mythic quest into a transformative journey of hope, magic, and redemption. [More]
Starring: William Hurt, Pascale Bussieres, Marc Donato, Raoul Trujillo
Starring: William Hurt, Pascale Bussieres, Marc Donato, Raoul Trujillo
Director: Lea Pool
Director: Lea Pool
Studio: Galafilm Inc
Reviews for The Blue Butterfly
The patronizing, gratuitous sentimentality undermines what could and should have been a simple story of courage and beauty.
If this film was of an American Beauty-standard, wouldn't it be wasted on the ten-year-olds and grandmothers that the production is really geared towards?
Pete McCormack's script only occasionally yields to melodrama. Mostly it allows the characters to breathe freely, expressing a greater range of human emotion than just love and sympathy.
Literally half the experience of this movie involves watching the wildlife. And on this level The Blue Butterfly works magnificently.
Feels as forced and sentimental as one of those disease-of-the-week melodramas that were once the mainstay of U.S. television.
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