Review of Small Town Saturday Night (2010) by Lexie T — 10 Mar 2011

It's such a delight to see Octavia Spencer in movies no matter how small the role she plays, yet, her smile brightens the film. But, this movie is not about Ms. Spencer's character, it's about a collection of various small townfolk and it takes the length of the movie to describe that they are all related/interconnected before ending with one breaking out of their self-imposed rut - Chris Pine's Rhett Ryan is the sole breaker-outer.

I felt the movie started like many different trains screaming towards another and converging when Brent Briscoe's character, Donny, takes a young boy on a fishing trip without permission. Thereafter everything is tied up nicely and how these people's lives are intertwined. It had a slow start but once all the characters were explained, the trained started rolling.