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The Education of Little Tree (Widescreen)

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I fell in love with the Smokies as a child when we'd go to Virginia every summer to visit my dad's family. I've been back to Tennessee numerous times as an adult and never tire of the beautiful scenery. The movie dealt with things dearest to my heart: The Smokies, the old ways, spirituality. I'm inspired by it, and as someone else said, I've watched the movie twice since I rented it and plan to watch it with another loved one tomorrow. It's the kind of movie you want to share with the people closest to you because, like Little Tree's grandma said in the movie, when you come on something good in life you gotta share it with someone else so the good can just keep on going.

As a breed that was born in 1949 I can truley relate to this story . To this day I want to go back to the mountians for my final Resting. You must go to the smokies for pictures just do not do justice. Let my bones be covered by the rocks of Mother Earth there.

Sometimes there are just things that hurt a heart beyond words. Beyond understandin'. And you can wait a real long time. Till one day day maybe or never, the understandin comes.

The Education of Little Tree came to me as an understandin.

Despite the fact that the book on which the movie was based was a fraud (sold as an autobiography, which it wasn't), this movie was wonderfully done. Growing up in the East TN and Southwest Virginia mountains with a Scotch/Irish Grandpa and a part Cherokee Grandma, I saw a lot of our family in this movie. It is true to the depression era of East Tennessee (and yes, a lot of children participated in moonshining). I highly recommend the movie to everyone. It's a shame that movies like this have to be made in Canada, but other than "Smoke Signals" so far all the truer stories of Native American People are. Maybe one day our country will accept our heritage and do this.

The movie was funny, sad, and entertaining. The two best things about this movie were 1. It was real and not all"happy ending" 2.There were lessons in it to be learned by children and adults.The scenery was magnificent.

My great-grandmother, Irene Jump was Cherokee she usd to always tell me of how my grandmother was made to go to these "camps" as she called them. My grandfather always said that she'd stopped calling them prison after WW2. This movie really hit the right spots.

I am a Cherokee woman and I loved this movie, it was very true to the stories that I was told by my mother who attended an Indian boarding school, our relatives also walked on the trail where they cried. The acting was superb and the story was great. I found it quite entertaining and heart warming. James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinel, Graham Green, and Joseph Ashton deserve recognition for a job well done on a story that warms the cockles of your heart....

I went to see the movie to see how the director and producer would treat it. I've read the book numerous times, and wondered if the packaging would do it justice. It did. There were a couple of scenes missing in the movie (like the turkey trap), but overall this was excellent. The movie contained the same emotional impact as the book.

Even though the young boy in the movie is involved in moonshining, the acceptance and patience shown by the grandparents in this story are a good model for all parents. It also teaches positive values about respecting life, nature and cultures that are outside the mainstream of American life.

Wonderfully photographed, expertley directed and acted. The message is simple but true: Help each other through life with love and respect. A rare family movie. Some profanity but not gratuitous. Historically real and enlightening. Some scenes might be frightening to small children. It's been a long time since a movie has moved me like this one did. I think anyone eight years and older could appreciate this richly done story.