MEMORIAL DAY (Newport Beach Film Festival Newport Beach California USA 2012)

 Ben Meyers’ rating: 3.7|5.0 Starsììì

Memorial Day—good concept—plays like a cookie-cutter movie. It’s an ‘I’ve seen this before’ entertainment  piece. It does not seem appropriate for a grandfather to use a grandson as a nose tissue to cry into...however, the healthful need to release certain memories is understood and sometimes it takes a certain set of circumstances to allow that release. This film illustrates that.

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Storyline

A young boy finds his grandfather’s footlocker.

Additional Thanks

Thank You to Director Samuel Fischer for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producers Samuel Fischer , Kyle O’Malley, and Jeff Traxler for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Staff Sergeant Kyle Vogel (Jonathan Bennett), Bud Vogel (James Cromwell), Lieutenant Bud Vogel (John Cromwell), Young Kyle Vogel (Jackson Bond), Betty Vogel (Mary Kay Fortier Spalding), Lieutenant Kelly Tripp (Emily Fradenburgh),Captain Tom Marshall (Charles Hubbell), Derek Lodermeier (Corby Kelly), Spc. Josh Berg (Chris LeFevere), Brandt (Steven Luke), Young German Soldier (Jasper Morgan), Ed Gorski (Reed Sigmund), Pfc. Nick Sullivan (Thomas Sellwood), Sarah Vogel (Erin Traxler), and Moises Aguilar (Armin Zadeh).

Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?

Maybe. Not much new in this drama.

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Ben Meyers