A Time to Dance

Like all Kingsbury novels this one too includes faith. However, it is sadly missing from the movie. An example of the world's hatred of Christianity and its attempt to cancel God. It's ok to discuss every other belief but not Christianity. Kingsbury should move her book/movie deals to GAC.

This started out nicely. But after an hour of sadness and anger it was still going on. The stated theme was carried out for the entire movie until the last 3 minutes, as one reviewer mentioned. He was annoying, she was sad. Misunderstandings kept it going. Everyone would have known about this "secret" they carried; very obvious. At the final end, it's resolved. OMG. Tedious and a real downer. In spite of good advice by Pops.

Okay so Jennie Garth is so so unhappy being married to a wonderful man who is handsome and bright but wears sweatpants and sweatshirts... Poor. This woman is so annoying. If she smiled once in the first hour her face would have cracked. Miserable to be around and if I were her daughter I'd say HEY MOM for goodness sake smile. What is with those kids anyway? They can't see misery in that woman's face and the attitude she's throwing off? Give me a break. The doom and gloom of mom is enough to turn the channel. I felt bad for the husband John who didn't have a clue . He's better off divorcing that sour puss and hooking up with the red head.

This story was taken from the pages of Karen Kingsbury's book, which I have yet to read, and the premise piqued my interest, having just celebrated 25 years of marriage. Not only did the story line not disappoint, the writing, acting and directing all came together beautifully. Having seen so many couples around us not make it, and knowing first hand that marriage takes work, this felt like a real peek into a nice family's story that was quickly unraveling, even though from the outside, everything seemed perfect. The film opens showing the main couple when they were high school sweethearts, then fast-forwards 25 yrs later. As they make plans to draw up papers and begin to dissolve their union, they are surprised by their daughter's engagement. They decide to hold off telling anyone of their plans until after the wedding. A heart-felt lesson of the importance of not throwing away promises.

7.6 stars.

Marriage is hard and that's what I learn from this story. What a sad tale of a couple who've been married for over 20 years and have two kids going to college and now the marriage has failed. But the daughter has just gotten engaged, so they can't announce their looming divorce anytime soon. There are a lot of tears shed feeling sad for two people who just don't know how to get into the marriage zone like they used to. This happens to almost every marriage that I'm aware of. Let's not forget the percentage of couples that get divorced, then you have all the single people who never get married, and then the ones who almost get divorced, but they stay together for appearances only. How many HAPPY people have I just described? None. The only happy ones are married for life and they've discovered the secret. One such gem of knowledge is to ask the question: what is marriage? The answer: It's a job. You have to treat it like your job. You have to show up on time, do the work right, get the work done, get along with your co-workers, improve and excel and promote until you are the boss. If we remember to treat a marriage like our life depends on it, something that creates a livelihood, supports family and children, puts food on the table, and its first and foremost ahead of everything else - including the "day job", maybe, just maybe, it will succeed. I bet almost every person reading this has experienced divorce, separation, or never got married. If you are still married, good for you, but don't continue taking your spouse for granted. If you aren't certain whether you are taking them for granted, then YOU ARE! If you aren't bleeding, sweating, and crying every day to save your marriage, to love your spouse with all the energy you have, wearing yourself down to the bone, then you aren't doing it right. Don't let your current successful marriage fail because you think you've got it right. If you're not working tirelessly to maintain love for your spouse and to do and be all you can for them, then you will fail (luck runs out eventually). Take from someone, one of the many billions of humans in earth's history, who has experienced a failed marriage.