Examiner par skip_press

Forget the HBO series (I didn't see it, but I read about it and talked to people who saw it). Forget the hype, forget the manufactured "here's how they fight it out on the set" baloney. This time the good guys won. Pete Jones wrote a great screenplay and deserved to win '"Project Greenlight." There's no hokum in this movie, no manufactured emotion, no predictable formula. This is about real people and real things that matter. It challenges tough, long-standing human issues like the differences in Judaism and Christianity, heaven and hell, ego and reality, and what matters in life. It's a tremendous accomplishment as a movie and ranks up there with "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" (both written by Horton Foote) and movies by socially conscious directors like Stanley Kramer and Norman Jewison -- only it doesn't sledge-hammer you with "the way it oughta be," it simply lays out how it probably could be, if people stopped to really look at what's going on and what matters. Keep making 'em like this, Pete Jones, and you have a fan for life.