Sunshine

Reviewed by: Marshame

July 17,2000

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I saw the movie "Sunshine" over the weakend, and it was delightful. Finally, my darling Ralph Finnes is in a movie that is not a bomb. He plays three characters in the family saga of the Sonnenschein's. It is quite picturesque and interesting, starting with the immigration of the grandfather from Hungry in about 1870, taking them through the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire and into the first world war, the bolshevik revolution and subsequent communist take over, the struggle with Hitler's fascists, world war two, and the communist tank invasion of 1956. Darling Ralph plays three generations of the men in this family, and the story is quite endearing. But it is long, about 3 hours. Has anyone else seen it? It played only at the Dallas artsy threatre, the Landmark.