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‘Amazing Grace’ a video gem

AMAZING GRACE AND CHUCK. Star-
ring Alix English, Joshua Zuehlke, Lee
Richardson, Gregory Peck. Written and
Produced by David Field. Directed by Mike
Newell. Available on videocassette.

What do Chuck Murdock, a twelve-year-
old Little League pitcher from Livingston,
Montana, and a seven-foot tall Boston Cel-
tics basketball star by the name of Amazing
Grace Smith have in common? Startling as.
it may seem, it is their commitment to live in
a world without nuclear weapons.

The story of how that shared commit-
ment affects the lives of Amazing Grace and
Chuck is told in this clever, sentimental and
fanciful movie.

Chuck, convincingly portrayed by Joshua
Zuehlke, begins to question the principles of
his life in small-town America after the local
Congressman takes him and a group of

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boys on a tour of a nearby missile silo to see
the Minuteman III missile. The experience
haunts him. He can’t forget the overpower-
ing presence of the missile or the Congress-
man’s boastful description of the destructive
capability of its 20 megaton warhead.

“Let’s say your mum and your sister were
doing the dishes and Carolyn dropped a
fork. Now suppose an ICBM airburst even
miles away, your sister would be vaporized
before that fork hit the ground. Do you
understand? Vaporized.”

Chuck decides he must do something, so
he gives up his one “‘best thing” — playing
baseball. As star pitcher for the Livingston
Mustangs, his refusal to play leaves the team
out of the state finals and earns him the

anger and ridicule of his teammates and ©

friends, and a confused silence from his
father, a fighter jet pilot in’ the air reserves.

But the boy isn’t alone for long. Amazing
Grace Smith (Alix English) reads about him
and after a brief visit with Chuck, Amazing
calls a press conference. He resigns from the
Boston Celtics stating that he is joining
Chuck’s protest and is giving up basketball
until there are no more nuclear weapons. ©

The nuclear weapons issue hasn’t been
the topic of a U.S. movie for some years
now. But Amazing Grace and Chuck,
unlike The Day After and Testament, does
not focus on the consequences of nuclear
war. Rather it explores, with a hopeful view,
the possibilities of what one boy and his
newly-found friend can do to stop the
“death buried in the earth.”

The realities of staying committed to
one’s principles in the face of alienation and
isolation are revealed. The movie also quite
boldly examines the politics of the arms race
with Gregory Peck as the U.S. president
and Lee Richardson playing the cold-
hearted “captain of industry.”

This is definitely a movie worth watch-
ing. Watch it with your children. Although
the pace is somewhat slow and explanations
of characters’ motives were sometimes
necessary, our eight-year-old shared whole-
heartedly in Chuck’s trials and triumphs.

If Amazing Grace and Chuck ever
played at local theatres it had a very brief
run but it is now available on video at some
outlets. Rent it soon and watch it with the
child’s hoping heart that lives in all of us and
longs for a world free of the nuclear threat.

— Angela Kenyon

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memory of

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from
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and
Marion Sarich

Fondest memories
of great friendship
in the past

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