Movie Review: News of the World
Rating: ***** I love Tom Hanks so anything he appears in I know is going to be good. In fact, I can't really think of one bad movie he's been in... oh wait, I take that back, The Money Pit . He's a fantastic actor, period. News of the World is so touching! You know one of those movies where you're talking to the movie screen? Well, this one qualifies. The story is about a lonely Captain Kidd who goes from town to town reading the newspapers to patrons as entertainment five years after the Civil War has ended. On his way to the next town, he finds a destroyed wagon with a young girl hiding in it. She's a lost "wild child" whom he tries to help. We soon discover that the German immigrant's name is Johanna, according to her papers, and that the feds were trying to take her "home" to her surviving relatives who live near San Antonio, Texas. Her parents, German settlers, were killed and she was adopted by the Kiowa Indians. She doesn't spe...