A Painted House

A sweet, feel good movie about a farmer and his wholesome family and their hardships and what that entails during simpler times. I enjoyed the relationship between the young boy and his grandfather. Which to me, is something that seems to be getting lost within our current times. This movie is a great reminder as to why Farmers and farm life are so important to us.

Nice Hallmark movie. A little slow...

Not as good as the book...

decent, for a halmark movie, this is the kid that playing Percy Jackson?

When I started watching it I have to say it looked so dumb but it turned out to be a pretty good movie.

Perhaps sometimes, we forget, with our plush life and current definition of "poverty", what things were like for rural "working poor" even as recently as the 50's. Survival, even for a man who owned the land, took a different strength of character. Is it good, or is it regretful those times have passed? More money yes, but were better times up North in the auto plants? I suppose, but this is nostalgia, and not bad either. It was a good family movie, narrated like the Waltons, I kept waiting for "goodnight Luke-boy". Yah, Little House on the Prairie too, a bit more reality, but did other commenters really expect this to be as complete as the book, any book? Personally, I'm tired of hearing book-readers whine about "what they left out". Don't watch movies if you read the book. This is certainly wandering reminiscences, but that's another type of literature too, isn't it? Why does every story have to be going somewhere special? To me it's a pretty good coming of age movie and worth the hour and a half at least, and always a pleasure watching Scott Glenn, when he gets good parts.

u can tell it was based on a book but not a whole lot happens in this...i mean it does but theres no climax or huge ending..it s a pretty simple story...very good acting esp with the young lead...also nice to see john grisham write something that was nt a courtroom drama.

I forgot I'd seen this movie until I read the book.

There isn't really a story here. I kept thinking something was going to happen that would spark the story but it never comes. Is it about the young kid crushing on the girl in the river? Nope. A twister comes, is it about that? Nope. The kid witnesses a murder, is that it? Nope. The ginger getting pregnant? Nope. It's a bunch of random scenes. It's not even about the house painting which is only done in the last 10 minutes of the movie. For all that, I watched it to the end so there was obviously something intriguing about it. Maybe I was just holding out to see what the point of the whole thing was.

This cast was disastrously chosen, made worse only by their collectively pathetic lack of any acting ability. This was a good book that found a slaughter house on its way to the theater.