Joel Urice
News-Times
Community Access TV
Danbury, CT
I thought the movie started out with a rather slow moving dialog. Then it began to click as I realized how much that pace seemed so real for the small rural town in which the story takes place. A simpler, less materialistic way of life where people understand that it's not how much you have, but who you have in your life that makes you happy. The story centers around a young man just out of high school with athletic talent that could be his ticket out of the poor rural community into which he was born. A ticket his grandfather, played by Brian Dennehy, doggedly pushes him to take. The most memorable line in this film should be from an argument with his grandfather when the boy angrily asks, "And what's wrong with being working class?!" Although a serious movie, some of of the honest, albeit off color, dialog had the audience laughing out loud at times. War Eagle, Arkansas is a delightful, heart felt art film about some of the most important things in life; family, friendship, loyalty and character.