Driving Lessons - movie review

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I'm in love with Rupert Grint. I never found him all that fascinating in the Harry Potter saga like one of my very best friends. She only watches them for him and of course, Tom. But really, she's been a Rupert Grint fan for ages. Well, if you only get to see his bits on screen in Harry Potter stuff..imagine..watching him as the main character of a movie.

Yeah, you get to see that vivid hair of his and those eyes. Amazing green eyes. And he was brilliant!

The movie came out between 2006 -2007. Its almost a British Harold and Maude, except they weren't suicidal or anything. Its about a boy from a very religious family. And you see how they see the world and how they interpret God in everything. His mother played by Laura Linny is as usual fantastic...and completely Brit. She forces Rupert's Ben to be in religious plays. And there is always this young pastor about who comes off something between James McCovey and James Tupper. While Ben's father is the formal pastor who reads mostly in his study about birds.

So this quirky family takes in an old odd fellow and because he needs "treatments"..Ben's mother tells Ben he must find a job to support the old man for his treatments. Well, the best he can do is tidy up for Julie Walters, an old actress who's house is a mess, but she'd rather be out camping, anyway. Meanwhile. Ben is suppose to be learning to drive. Before he knows it, he's driving the old dame places, and he's acting out play scenes with the rather sauced Walters. Naturally, his Mom thinks the worst, and she wants him home instead of off at poetry recitals.

Really, its a sweet movie about a boy and what he has to put up with from so many. From girls thinking he's strange to all the strange things he has to contend with.

Yeah, this one is a keeper and I'm glad I bought myself a copy of it. Lots of Sufjan Stevens' melodies through out the movie too.

These days you can see Rupert sporting stubble and not afraid to take his shirt off..especially, in last year's Cherry Bomb. While Wild Target will be out in the UK as of June 18, an action comedy with Emily Blunt and Rupert Everett.

make a splash..hahahaha..not if I can help it

I dunno. This might be my last summer with Clive. Its not like its final, and its supposedly not me.

He wants to move. He hates his job and he just can't wait to travel. But I'm not wanting to go anywhere just yet. Sure, my job is not perfect and I work with strange people, but who doesn't.

I finally get full time which he'd been on my case forever and then he wants to up and quit his. I'm not sure what to do. Maybe Jonah can move in. I don't really want to leave here. Of course, I wish Jonah had a job. He's like a brother to me. And I used to live with him and his Mom. But we had some drama and well, I'm not exactly like that anymore, but I wouldn't want to move back in with her because she's like totally different with her new husband and well, it seems life is so slow lately when it comes to wanting to find a job and a career and everything.

I mean, I was so happy and everything with Clive because I wasn't expecting it. But he's got issues. And he needs to get that cleared up. Hopefully, I'll see my brother in June. Its been a very long time. He's in the military. He told me he's looking for a wife. I wanted to laugh, but I couldn't.

Anyway, I have to be upbeat. Starting Monday the new Summer Reading program kicks in.

I haven't gotten Will Grayson Will Grayson read like I should have. I'm afraid I'll have to wait to finish it. Because there are lot of holds on it. I do like the fact that the band got mentioned that I was so  crazy about a few years ago. Now not so much. Its funny when you can't remember why you found a band so special now. Of course, I loved the fact that these guys preactially lived for music. Very indie.

Naturally, I've been wanting to write about musicians. Oddly, though, I've never wanted to date one. I had a cousin who was with a drummer for a while and uh.. He was kind of a dick. Clive looks like he could be in a band, but he'd rather be playing World of War Craft. Yeap, that guy would be happy to have a fridge full of beer and his computer set to the game and not care about anything else. Maybe I should be happy he's going.

I guess its change I don't like.