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"Since You Went Away" is undeniably designed to be a sobfest. It's trite, full of cliches, and it's blatant morale-sustaining propaganda. It does, however, tell a very real story for those of us who lived through those terrible years. What we needed were sobfests, cliches, and anything that would sustain our morale. For those of us, even as children, who walked the terribly lonely walk to Woolworth's with a grandparent, to buy the new gold star flag to hang in the window signifying the death of a family member somewhere in Europe---for us, it was at Anzio, in Italy---or the Pacific, this film is frighteningly real. I treasure this film.

A delightful and wonderful film, which has entered my pantheon of great romantic comedies. IN many ways it's even better than "When Harry met Sally." IT wears well on viewing and re-viewing. The cast is excellent, and both David Duchovny and Minnie Driver give us really believable characters.

"Tortilla Soup" is not a "great" film; but it certainly is an excellent and lovely film. The entire cast is superb, including Paul Rodriguez in a non-comic role. A great deal of attention is paid to accents in Spanish. For a Basque-Puertoriqueno , ELizondo's Mexican accent is absolutely believable, as is the Cuban accent of Julio Mechoso. Only one linguistic error occurs. In "daughter" Carmen's (Jacqueline Obradors) planned move to Barcelona, she says that she already speaks the language. She doesn't, because Spanish is not the official---nor the legal---language in Barcelona: it is Catalan (a Provencal Language, seemingly half-French and half-Spanish). But that's a minor point. Raquel Welch is wonderful as the woman pursuing Elizondo. This is a wholly believable film, and wonderful entertainment.