The Video Graveyard
March, 1999
She's an embittered young woman who has Lou Gehrig's disease. He's a failed artist with a cockeyed dream of building his own airplane. Fate brings them together in The Theory of Flight (Fine Line), and they eventually form a friendship through which each finds the possibility of fulfilling a dream. I'm afraid that this qualifies as forced whimsy, but it's given strength and purpose by the two compelling actors chosen to play the lead roles: Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh. They add weig...
