The film captures the mystery of New Mexico's landscapeįrom the opening shot of Davey, on the beach at Atlantic City, the sound of waves crashing and seagulls squawking gradually replaced by the first of several songs which play throughout, he gets it right. Blume's twitter account that Blume is so in love with her son's rendition, he never has to buy another Mother's Day present. I have a feeling though, judging from Ms.
Let me be clear I don't know for certain that he got it right in terms of the book since I haven't read it (sorry, Judy!) but he certainly got it right as a film. Thankfully, Lawrence Blume was sensitive sensitive to getting the film version of his famous mother's book right. It would have been easy for Tiger Eyes to become a soapy mess less sensitive direction could have landed the ya movie, with its heightened emotions, in glorified after school special land. Lawrence Blume and Willa on location in New Mexico Wishing I could articulate my thoughts as eloquently as Peter Travis did in Rolling Stone alas ~
Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears. After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. The movie’s sincerity carries it along, and makes this story endearing despite its filmmaking clichés.Here's the skinny on the story from if you haven't read the book. Time has robbed Blume’s subjects of shock value, but her perceptiveness hasn’t dimmed. Stevenson is wonderful as Bitsy as part of her job, she shows off A-bomb replicas, and her pained expression when Davey’s brother points out the Hiroshima death toll is like a cosmetics saleslady being told her skin cream causes acne. The interest comes from the script, which allows many characters some unsolved prickliness.
There is also one of those breathy folk-ish soundtracks to which indie filmmakers are inexplicably addicted. It is a blandly shot movie, with pretty actors brooding in front of pretty scenery. There Davey meets a young Native American man called Wolf (Tatanka Means), and begins to move past her grief. Her shattered mother (Amy Jo Johnson) drags Davey and her young brother to stay with Aunt Bitsy (Cynthia Stevenson) in Los Alamos, NM. “Tiger Eyes,” directed by Blume’s son Lawrence from a script they co-wrote, concerns Davey (Willa Holland of “Gossip Girl”), whose father was killed during a robbery at his small shop in Atlantic City. But she’s no cynic, and this, the first movie made from one of her popular novels shares her notion that most of us are doing our best. Judy Blume made her name in the 1970s writing young-adult books that dealt with hard topics - puberty, bullying, divorce.
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