Monday, January 21, 2013

Ulee's Gold 1997


     Ulee is a beekeeper living in Florida and trying to raise his two granddaughters.  His son, Jimmy, is in prison for bank robbery and his daughter-in-law, Helen, ran away from the responsibility of the girls.  Ulee’s is a Vietnam veteran who hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife several years ago.  Jimmy tells Ulee that Helen is with the same pair of drug dealers that were involved with him in the robbery.  Ulee doesn’t want to but he brings Helen back to his home to get her off drugs.  Everything starts to go bad when the dealers want money for Helen.
     I wanted to see this film because I see Ulee used a lot as a crossword puzzle clue.  How many names are there with these letters?  Ulee is not very warm but loyal, responsible and just too nice!  The drug dealers needed a lot more tough love than he gave them!!  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

113 min, Drama directed by Victor Nunez with Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel, Tom Wood, J. Kenneth Campbell, Christine Dunford, Steven Flynn.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 7.0 out of 10, 94% critic 69% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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