Pennsylvania

• Harvest of Fire directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman (1996)

  [6/10]

  "A pleasant family movie that earns, rather than manufactures, its warm-and-fuzzy emotional effect."

• History of Violence, A directed by David Cronenberg (2005)

  [6/10]

  "A History of Violence asks serious questions about the generational effects of violence, but fails to provide any solid answers to these questions."

• Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald (1955)

  [7/10]

  "Fitzgerald relates a touching story about how his father and mother met, married, and started a family in a frontier town of rural Utah."

• Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse by John D. Fitzgerald (1961)

  [6/10]

  "You get a pretty clear picture of life in a frontier mining town, and you care about what happens to Will, even though the successes in his life come way too easily."

• Witness directed by Peter Weir (1985)

  [7/10]

  "Witness creates good suspense and shows the contrasting culture of the Amish without making any judgements. The script lays on the religious symbolism quite thick: John (an apostle of Christ), Book (a synonym for the Bible), and John knows carpentry (Christ was the son of a carpenter). With this setup, you must expect that John Book will function as some sort of savior figure, but that savior figure also has romantic inclinations."

  Average score: 6.40