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Having read a few reviews of this depression era set novel by Sara Gruen, I was apprehensive to see the film. The readers and critics had said it was too depressing and didn't end well. I'm happy to say the film is not bad at all.

It captures the mood of the s, and we the audience really get a sense of what it must have been like to live in that time in history. Yes we went through our own depression but it was quite different and much more difficult back then.

The film centers around Jacob Robert Pattinson a student of veterinary science at Cornell, who gives up his education and runs away after his parents die in a car accident. He stumbles upon a traveling circus, where he is taken in by riff raffs and other stowaways. They have all become a part of the circus ensemble in order to make ends meet.

August takes Jacob under his wing initially, but later Jacob learns his true colors. I do not wish to give away too much of the storyline but something tells me people will like this movie as much as the book if not more.

I think the film makers have managed to make a film about the depression era without it being depressing. The film has an epic feel to it. It's, emotional, inspiring, romantic, and overall it makes for a very good drama.

Even the ending is uplifting. The cast is wonderful as well. Robert Pattinson holds his own against two Oscar winners. It's great to see Reese Witherspoon back in action and in top form. There aren't enough great things I can say about Christoph Waltz. It's great to see a film with real sets, and gritty and flawed characters, rather than imaginative CG rendered places and creatures. It's a surprising film from director Francis Lawrence whose previous films include "Constantine" and "I am Legend.

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Although there are skirmishes from time to time, it takes nearly the entire film for matters to fully come to a head and the lack of complexity, danger and underlying tension becomes all too noticeable from the mid-point onwards. Once the climax does arrive, the spectacular scene is over and done with far too quickly, giving it a borderline perfunctory feel.

Despite the hard glances and suggestion of a working class accent, Marlena is still a shade too much the lady and not enough of a dame. Hal Holbrook does a nice job framing the tale as an elderly Jacob telling the story to a modern circus worker, although by rights he should be narrating the whole thing, not Pattinson; again, modern audience sensibilities likely came into play.

Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Rated PG for moments of intense violence and sexual content. Hal Holbrook as Old Jacob. Christoph Waltz as August. Robert Pattinson as Jacob. Reese Witherspoon as Marlena. Reviews What, and give up show business? Roger Ebert April 21, Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon with elephant. Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. Bergman Island Tomris Laffly. Old Henry Glenn Kenny.