Top cast:Tom Cruise,Hayley Atwell,Ving Rhames
Director:Christy Cabanne&D.W. Griffith
Genre:Crime
Region:Denmark
Year:2008
Storyline:This film, sometimes criticized as over-rated, was Spielberg's biggest blockbuster up to that time.It also popularized Reese's Pieces candy, Kuwahara bikes, and red hoodies.Observant audiences noted the film's many merchandising tie-ins and inside "film jokes."While the film was regarded by some as a religious allegory or parable, the film more clearly identifies with many childhood experiences: a troubled, broken family with a single parent and no positive role-models, a lonely, disenfranchised boy lacking emotional fulfillment, a boy's fierce caring for an equally-lost, stray creature or pet (also 'broken away' from his family), the need for friendship, he malevolent world of grown-ups and the perils of childhood, miraculous healing, wish-fulfillment, courage, transcendence, and homesickness.The title's "To Be or Not to Be" - Hamlet's existential contemplation of suicide in the play that resonated throughout he script, could have been rephrased as a decision-making assertion o ambivalent Americans: "To act or not to act.There's somethin' in the woods and in the water that we have lost in the city.Lewis: We didn't lose it.We sold it.Bobby: Well, I'll say one thing for the system - the system did produce he air-mattress.Or as it's better known among we camping types he instant broad.And if you fellows will excuse me, I'm gonna go be mean to my air mattress.Tension is heightened when Lewis senses "something or someone" in the blackness of the night around them.She overcomes her own shallowness and selfishness when Fonda becomes ill with yellow fever and she heroically sacrifices herself to care for him.