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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mitch Davis |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 12 April, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Walt Disney Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936211702 |
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Customer Reviews of The Other Side Of Heaven
The Other Side Of Where? The opening scene of this show is a rock and roll dance hall in the 1950's, comlpete with the poodle skirts that fly up when the guys swing the girls around like rag dolls. I blushed, but kept watching in hopes it would get better. Oh, JOY. After a few more embarrasing moments one of the musicians (who also happens to be the missionary guy), heads off with Ann Hathaway to the creek and things quited down as the couple have a romantic interview in the moonlight. Soon this guy (funny, I can't recall his name), has made his way to Konga, and the real adventure starts. In the midst of violent island storms, hostility, and a blosseming friendship with the young man assinged as his helper, the missionary guy is all but seduced by a naughty little wench who has a major crush on him. I mention this because parents ought to know that this movie is NOT appropriate viewing for children. Heck, I'm almost 18 years old, and that shocking scene stuck in my mind like a burr for days.
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Movie starts with a narration -- always a VERY bad sign for any motion picture.
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>When the narrator intoned that his High School teacher announced that something "terrible" had happened at Hiroshima I lost all interest. If his teacher thought ending the war with Japan was "terrible", then she must have been hoping for him to die on the beaches of Honshu.
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>Either the narrator was lying or he was irretrievably stupid
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>Either way I lost interest in what was shaping up to be a really sappy film anyway.
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Young Elder John Groberg becomes a missionary to Tonga
Writer-Director Mitch Davis was a Mormon missionary to Argentina in the 1970s, so it is not surprising that he would be attracted to the story of John Groberg, who left his home in Idaho Falls at the age of 19 to travel to the South Pacific achipelago of the Kingdom of Tonga for his three year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Davis's script is based on Elder Groberg's 1993 memoir, "In the Eye of the Storm," and the story that ends up on the screen is your basic stranger in a stranger land tale. Of course it takes place on a gorgeous island in the South Pacific, so there is exotic local. But while Grober is a Mormon missionary this film is largely a nondenominational tale of Christian missionary work (I wonder if that phrase is redundant or if there are non-Christian missionaries; obviously I consider Mormons to be Christians, and I understand some would debate the point, but I do not see how such a disticntion matters to this film).
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>We are introduced to young John Groberg (Christopher Gorham) he is playing trumpet at a swing party at Brigham Young University watching his girl, Jean Sabin (Anne Hathaway), dancing with some other guy. So John finishes his trumpet solo, puts down his horn, and jumps down to do some serious rug cutting with Jean. She is the rock he will be leaving behind, although the exact nature of their understanding is unclear, and despite the fact that is will take months for them to exchange letters. That is how long it takes Groberg to get to his post on the island of Niuatoputap (pay attention to the lines he draws on the map to pick up on how he really does take the long way round). Groberg is accompanied by Feki (Joseph Folau), who can help translate for the young missionary and save him from some embarassment over what is being said about him and what he is saying in his first speech in the native language.
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>There are problems to overcome and not just in terms of the language (this is one of those films where as soon as the main character learns the native tongue everybody starts speaking English). The island already has a minister who warns the people against listening to the missionary and it turns out that sleeping with your feet uncovered is not a good idea. Of course, Groberg will win over the natives, and we are not surprised that they make as big of an impression on them (the title of the film indicates as much). But not as much of the film is about Groberg's missionary work as you might think (the key moment comes when he finally gets checked up on and is berated because he has not done the proper paperwork for baptizing people and buidling churches). A lot of it has to do with trying to survive hurricanes and shipwrecks, not to mention some local customs that serve to remind how much of a different world he is living in now. The letters back and forth between John and Jean are not as much as I anticipated, but we do appreciate how she is his rock and that heaven is not just returning to her to live happily ever after. It is getting her to live with him in paradise.