Sunshine State (2002)

Great Movie
My boyfriend, a huge John Sayles fan, introduced me to this movie when it was still on the big screen, and I loved it! I am not sure what I like best between the wonderful actors, many little play lines, or the quotes that we now share after watching this movie, but it is a treasure that we pull out every couple months or so. Now that our VCR has finally died we are replacing the VHS copy with a DVD. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Whoa! Too many storylines to resolve.
Here's a movie that you hate to give an average rating to but it can't be helped. "Sunshine State" has a lot of great characters with a lot of great promise. That's the good, as well as, the bad part for this picture.

The cast delivers an A-list performance and you're quickly drawn into the story centered around an old beach community. There's plots that branch off from the main theme dealing with homecomings, an old community scandal, issues concerning today's crumbling families, hanging onto tradition while making room for progress-I could go on and on. You sit and fully invest yourself in these people but in the end the plot is just a snap shot in the life of these characters. This thing could have been a series, or at least, a mini-series and I could have kept coming back. In the end I was just teased and left wanting to know how they all came out. Loose endings in a movie I don't mind but not this many. Obviously that's what writer and director John Sayles wanted the viewer to leave with at the closing credits. All those questions which the viewer has to resolve for themselves. Too many for my book but make a sequel and I'll be there.

Whoa! Too many storylines to resolve.
Here's a movie that you hate to give an average rating to but it can't be helped. "Sunshine State" has a lot of great characters with a lot of great promise. That's the good, as well as, the bad part for this picture.

The cast delivers an A-list performance and you're quickly drawn into the story centered around an old beach community. There's plots that branch off from the main theme dealing with homecomings, an old community scandal, issues concerning today's crumbling families, hanging onto tradition while making room for progress-I could go on and on. You sit and fully invest yourself in these people but in the end the plot is just a snap shot in the life of these characters. This thing could have been a series, or at least, a mini-series and I could have kept coming back. In the end I was just teased and left wanting to know how they all came out. Loose endings in a movie I don't mind but not this many. Obviously that's what writer and director John Sayles wanted the viewer to leave with at the closing credits. All those questions which the viewer has to resolve for themselves. Too many for my book but make a sequel and I'll be there.