My wife and I just finished watching this movie about an hour and a half ago.

This movie has had an ever-increasing impact on me since the end credits rolled.

This movie seems to be following me around, and that weight in my stomach - in my gut - just won't subside.

I watch movies for this reason.
We all watch movies for this reason.

We want more than flashy special effects, laugh-a-minute comedies, bangs and booms of loud action movies.

We want something that shows us we can be something we want to be, that we can be larger than life on that large screen up there, that we can be taken somewhere, that we can truly go somewhere we've never been - somewhere great and grand. And we want to know all our dreams can be made real.

This film takes us somewhere.
Somewhere very familiar.

Somewhere very close to home.

Roger Ebert's Great Movies website for the film.