Ramona and Beezus. Note that I saw this movie while flying from Madrid to Chicago. I loved this movie. It had a sweetness to it and yet addressed stresses that kids sometimes face when their parents suffer misfortune. Considering our economic times, the movie explored such issues as foreclosure and unemployment in a kid friendly way. Of course, the movie goes beyond just our economic hard times. The movie focuses on Ramona and her wild imagination that results in various hi-jinks. All the actors (kids and adults) had you cheering for them.
One complaint: In the end, the father finds a part time job as an art teacher. One has to assume the wife would also keep her part time job. There is no way the combined family income could keep the mortgage payments on what appeared to be a 3 bedroom 1 or 2 bathroom house -- especially considering that they quickly fell in trouble after the father lost his Vice President position.
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