The Cider House Rules (1999)

Director: Lasse Hallstrom (Director of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape)

Star cast: Tobey Maguire (Spider man fame) , Charlize Theron (Hancock, Italian job) , Michael Caine

 

Highlight: Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture; Won Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay (John Irving) and Best Supporting Actor (Michael Caine)

Based on John Irving’s novel “The Cider House Rules”

The Cider house Rules is an engrossing and heartfelt drama that will have you crying and at the same time making you feel so good about life, and yourself. Tobey Maguire plays Homer Wells an orphan nobody wants. Homer has spent most of his life in an orphanage, under the care of the kind but strict Dr. Larch. Homer learns everything about brig a doctor form Larch, and Larch one day hopes that Homer will take over for him when he's gone, but Homer has other plans he doesn't want to stay in the orphanage he wants to go see the world experience new things, and his dreams of seeing a world outside the orphanage come true when he meets a man and his girlfriend looking to abort her pregnancy. Homer takes a leap of faith and asks to come along with them, and that's when one man’s journey begins to see the world for what it is. The cider house rules will have you wanting to see it again as soon as it's over, it's an inspiring movie that shows you if you even stay away from your old way of life you will always have a place to come home to.

Tobey Maguire was perfectly casted for this movie, they couldn't have found someone more suitable for the job than him. Michael Caine, brilliant as always, won't disappoint either. The always very beautiful Charlize Theron is very lovable and sweet. Maybe less famous is Paul Rudd (maybe you saw him as Phoebe's boyfriend in "Friends"), but he's always very enjoyable; a fine actor!

You can do whatever you like in life; there are no rules at the point of action. The kicker is that you must accept two downstream effects: You must not only accept the foreseen consequences of your actions, but you must equally accept the unforeseen consequences.

My Rating - 8/10