In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank..
If you want a cozy Sunday afternoon movie that feels like a warm bowl of oatmeal, Life Begins at 40 is absolutely worth your time. But if you can't stand slow 1930s pacing or folksy rambling, you will probably want to throw your remote at the screen. ☕Honestly, I put this on expecting a dusty old melodrama and ended up...
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"If you want a cozy Sunday afternoon movie that feels like a warm bowl of oatmeal, Life Begins at 40 is absolutely worth your time. But if you can't stand slow 1930s pacing or folksy rambling, you will probably want to throw your remote at the screen. ☕Honestly, I put this on expecting a dusty old melodrama and ended up smiling at how gentle the whole thing is.The story is simple enough. Will Rogers plays a small-town newspaper editor who decides to help a kid who just got out of jail for a bank ..."
William M. Conselman, Dudley Nichols, Walter B. Pitkin, Robert Quillen, Lamar Trotti
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