Where Hope Grows

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

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Thank you Rogers and Cowen for sending us this DVD to review!

Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player who would rather go drinking with his friends than spend time with his seventeen year old daughter who needs him in her life. She is dating a guy that is older than her and has a one track mind. She knows her father doesn't approve of him, but when he doesn't spend time with her, she's running into her boyfriend's arms instead.

While shopping at the local grocery store for some food and alcohol, Calvin Campbell meets an employee there with Down syndrome. He goes by the name Produce and just so happens to work in the produce department. Produce is a good employee that knows the SKU numbers for every fruit and vegetable in the store. As much as he longs for the employee of the month recognition, the honor always seems to elude him. Despite the lack of recognition, Produce is very friendly and makes many friends at the store. One of those friendships is with Calvin who can use a good friend to help him get his life back in order.

Where Hope Grows tells a good story about redemption and spending more time with your loved ones. Because of the language, heavy drinking, and sexual situations, I don't recommend this movie for young children. It's accurately rated PG-13. With that said, I highly recommend it for everyone else. The picture quality and acting is well done. I recognized the actors Alan Powell from The Song and William Zabka from

. Sometimes the actor for Produce, David DeSanctis, was a little hard to understand, but he still did an excellent job and made his character lovable. I like how the movie and cast vowed to stop using the "R" word to describe people with Down syndrome. The message of not under-estimating or giving up on people is clear and needs to be shared. The DVD sells for less than $13 and the Blu-Ray goes for $18 on Amazon.

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