LABOR DAY

Movie:  Labor Day
Jan's Rating:  B+
Time:  1 hour 51 minutes

Jan's Opinion:  My friend Laura and I saw this movie today and thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was a little slow in the beginning which is why I gave it a B+ instead of an A, but overall, a very good movie.  Kate Winslet plays a divorced woman who lives with her son in a run-down home on the edge of town.  Her husband left her years ago for his secretary.....gee, imagine that....certainly not an original plot.  I think the son is in 6th grade in the movie, but he looks more like he's 13 years old.  Anyway, he and his mother are in town shopping one day when they meet an escaped convict, played by Josh Brolin, who "convinces" them to take him home with them.  The man has been in prison for a murder he says he did not commit; thus begins a romantic relationship between him and the boy's mother.  There is more involved with the boy's feelings and a surprising ending.  Treat yourself to this movie.  I think you will enjoy it.