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Anything Is Possible (2013)

September. 24,2013
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5.9
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Ethan Bortnick plays the leading role as Nathan,a young boy who's separated from his mother when she goes missing during a trip to Japan to help after the tsunami. The movie explores issues like homelessness, military family life and adoption. Ethan co-wrote the music with Grammy award winning songwriter and producer, Gary Baker and will also score the entire film. Ethan will become the youngest actor to co-write the soundtrack and play the leading role in a feature film. When Army lieutenant, MARGARET PETERS (Lacy Chabert) goes missing during a tsunami rescue mission in Japan, back in Detroit, her son, NATHAN (Ethan Bortnick), discovers that his father GEORGE (Jonathan Bennett) isn't his biological father. Learning that Child Care Services could take him away, Nathan runs away before his father can explain. While George goes on a frantic search, Nathan takes to the streets of Detroit where he meets CAPTAIN MILES, a homeless Iraqi war veteran. Captain Miles takes the boy under his ...

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Kattiera Nana
2013/09/24

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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PodBill
2013/09/25

Just what I expected

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Kailansorac
2013/09/26

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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ActuallyGlimmer
2013/09/27

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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bkoganbing
2013/09/28

A nice story in Anything Is Possible is unfortunately hoisted on a ridiculous premise. It unfortunately colors the whole film.Young Ethan Bortnick is the child of Jonathan Bennett and Lacey Chabert, a military family with Chabert still in the service and deployed on a relief mission to Japan which has been hit with a tsunami. Chabert goes missing and social services comes knocking and the kid learns that Bennett is not his biological father. Social services wants to take Bortnick away and put him in foster care.Unless someone made a complaint and no one has, no way social services would get involved. They have enough work without looking for cases.In any event the kid is lucky to find homeless veteran David Haines on the street to look out for him. And his musical talents on the piano and keyboard come in handy in trying to save an orphanage. All in the best Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland 'let's put on a show' tradition.Anything Is Possible is a nice family film, but believe me it wouldn't happen this way in real life.

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Jack Vasen
2013/09/29

If you want great acting, then this isn't your movie. If you want a great plot or even a realistic one, same answer. But if you like movies with kids and a good piano performance, then this is a fun movie.100% sappy. Maybe 10% realistic. After Lacey Chabert who is barely in this, and Jonathan Bennett, most of the adult actors are like they are in community theater. Some of the kids aren't bad. The story is a little slow and very predictable, but it's heartwarming.But the total gem in this movie is 12 year old Ethan Bortnick. He plays a prodigy and he comes off a little like a savant and maybe even as very high functioning autistic. But his piano playing is golden. He performs several piano numbers at length, and a couple are repeated more than once. But remember it is the kid playing, not someone else, and what's more, he wrote the original songs he plays. He even sings. This is someone who has performed on national TV.The kids have fun. Almost everyone in the movie is encouraging. But this is not a religious movie. If anything the theme is - you can do anything if you believe in yourself.

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next_exodus
2013/09/30

I bought this film from a Christian bookstore thinking that it was a Christian film. The 5 "Dove" rating on the front is apparently only an indication of the quality of the content and not the quality of the message.After watching the film, it was clear that the movie was not a Christian film. It was clean, but it only glorified humanism and the power of the human spirit. Not once is God even mentioned, and there is no mention of God being the source of the young boys talent. The "faith" mentioned in the film is so ambiguous its practically meaningless. All of the key messages in the film point to humanism and self empowerment. There is no mention of Jesus, not even a nod or an allusion, no scripture, nothing - not even a trite Christian cliché.The whole child prodigy thing is great. Squeaky clean. The movie drags and meanders something awful. Decent acting in parts. Cute kids. Feel good message, but powerless.

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Katrine Dolmer
2013/10/01

Brilliant movie, very touching. It makes no sense that this movie is only rated by 70 people, I just don't get it. I love the actors, especially Ethan Bortnick (and Jonathan Bennett but it's probably just ass well because he looks so damn good...), though I think they could have been more convincing in the reuniting scenes. I love the music! First time he played for real, I was just like, WHAT?! Where the hell did that come from? And Bortnick is just so perfect for the role, I mean, even his voice is great. I feel really talentless right now. I don't normally write reviews, but I just had to do it when nobody else had done it, because this is really a great movie and it is really worth a watch. If you like movies like August Rush, you will definitely like this movie too.

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