Guest Blogger: Kami 1

The movie I picked is What Maisie Knew directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. This movie is about a six year old girl, Maisie, who is stuck in a custody battle between her rock star mom and her business man dad. Though out the movie both of the parents remarry and the burden of taking care of little Maisie falls on them. Both parents soon are divorced again and still seem to need the two ex-spouses to do all the hard work with little Maisie. This movie is biased off of the book What Maisie Knew written by Henry James published in 1897. Julianne Moore plays the mother who is not all there all the time. Steve Coogan plays the father how it seems can’t be bother by his child because he has better work to do. 6 year old Onata Aprile plays six year old Maisie in the movie. She does a fantastic job of well…being six! The many them though out the movie is family. Yet one can also say that it may be love. Maisie is very much loved. The love she gets comes in strange forms but she is still very loved. Critics have given this movie on IMDB a 7.4. Personally I feel like this movie deserves a 9. I really found that I loved the story and was in a way on the edge of my seat to see how the story played out and who little Maisie would end up with. I would recommend this movie. Yes, it is a bit sad but you will leave it feeling happy and feeling the love that is show though out the film. If you like a good film all about family and love I would say this is the movie for you.