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StrikerX
10-01-2008, 09:15 AM
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Okay well i know this movie is old but i only watched it for the very first time today. My sister is like...I'll give you $5 if you don't cry. Well i didn't cry, but i stopped myself from doing it i got very teary.

This is the plot for the movie:

10-year-old Jesse "Jess" Aarons is an aspiring artist living in a financially struggling family. 10-year-old Leslie Burke has just moved to Lark Creek and is the new girl at Jess's school who has had trouble making friends at school and yet is full of joy and wonder with a vast imagination. She enters a running event which she wins, despite her classmates calling it a "boys' only" race. At first, Jess is quite sour about this and wants nothing to do with Leslie, but Leslie's persistence in meeting him soon pays off, and the two become very close friends. Their friendship starts when Leslie offers Jess a piece of Juicy Fruit gum on the bus, and he accepts. Jess shares his secret love of drawing with Leslie. Together they venture into the woods, where they swing across a creek on a rope and find an abandoned tree house on the other side. Here, the two friends invent a new world they call Terabithia, and it comes to life through their eyes as they explore together. Back in the "real" world, they both plot against bullies at their school. Leslie gives Jess an unexpected birthday present, an art kit, and he gives Leslie a dog (Prince Terrien) in return, much to both of the children's happiness. Leslie thanks Jess by hugging him, revealing her secret affections to him. On the next trip to Terabithia later that day, it is noted that the river beneath the rope has begun to swell and there is increasing tension as Leslie and Jess swing across the creek, their feet brushing the water.

At the end of a particular visit to Terabithia, Jess watches Leslie run back to her house (the same way he would watch his music teacher, Ms. Edmunds) realizing he has fallen in love with her. Early the next morning, Ms. Edmunds who has noticed Jess's artistic interests, calls to invite him on a field trip to an art museum. He makes an effort to ask his mother's permission; she is half-asleep and doesn't actually say anything, but he is so eager to go that he assumes she has agreed. He has a crush on the beautiful and personable teacher and does not want to share the trip with Leslie; he merely looks at her home as they drive by.

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When he returns, his father and mother are worried sick, not knowing where he has been all day. He hears the horrifying news that Leslie has died trying to swing across the rain-swollen creek. He learns that the rope broke and Leslie fell in, hit her head on something - possibly a rock - which knocked her unconscious, and drowned. Jess is deeply grieved. He and his parents visit the Burke family home to "pay their respects."There Bill Burke tells him of her being in love with him as well as thanking him for being a very good friend to her since she had trouble making friends at her own school.

Jess feels overwhelming guilt for Leslie's death, but his father consoles him to keep their intense friendship alive for her sake. So Jess re-imagines Terabithia and builds a bridge across the river to welcome a new ruler. He invites his sister, May Belle Aarons to enter Terabithia; she is delighted because she was previously denied any opportunity to enter. She and Jess bring back Terabithia in even greater splendor, Jess as king and his sister .

My Favorite quote from the movie is



[crying] Jess: Is it like the Bible says? Is she going to Hell?

Jack: I don't know everything about God, but I do know he's not going to send that little girl to Hell.

Jess: [sobs] Then I'm going to Hell, because it's all my fault.

Jack: Don't you think that, even for a minute.

Overall its not my type of movie, i watched it with my GF and she cried for the last 30 mins, but still this was an excellent movie that will bring even a tear to the eye of grown adults. 9.5/10

sirlaughsalot
10-01-2008, 12:12 PM
Yeah it actually was pretty good, i half-ass watched it one day and it really was sad and moving, not something i usually watch, but still very good...

noidea
10-01-2008, 12:14 PM
My class at school watched it. Half of us laughed when we found out the girl died when she tried to swing the rope and it broke :)

sirlaughsalot
10-01-2008, 12:18 PM
Well tbh i only really felt bad for the dude for beating himself up so much... She was kinda weird and reminds me of a girl i know irl, cept she likes death more but meh...

noidea
10-01-2008, 12:20 PM
I thought that was kind of funny. I just rofled at your sigg :D

StrikerX
10-01-2008, 09:35 PM
Yeah i admit that if i watched it with my mates i would laugh, but when your watching it with just you and your GF, and she's balling her eyes out...It sort of gets to you.