themetfairy wrote: This is a fine film. It's toned down for a PG rating, so I'm sure the hope is that it will get a lot of views by high school and middle school classes. One thing that D-Dad noticed was that in Virginia in the early 1960's you didn't see one person smoking within the film. Kevin Costner chews a lot of gum, though, which appears to be a wink and a nod to the cigarettes he's not smoking. Again, for the kids in the audience.... MMYF said a lot of the same things. We also talked about the segregated buildings, rest rooms and the Woolworth in town and like there had been in the Southern towns we visited as kids. I liked the music. And the cars, lots of them, all appropriate. One teensy technical quibble. The main character was asked if she knew Analytic Geometry, yet many of the formulas on the chalk boards were really Calculus. I didn't notice any discernible Disney-ism (if there is such a word). It was well done and deserves any award recognition it may receive. Later