I saw this film at the 2006 Palm Springs International Film Festival. It's difficult for me to be critical of a film with such a positive message and centered around the story of a real life person who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to help others but this film is cluttered and has too many flaws. In the trilogy of stories two of them are really unnecessary. The story of the old man who has just about given up on living is terrific and this film should have expanded more on his story and dropped the other two. The actor playing the old man was great and you really sympathized with him. The other two stories were weak. The story of Theresa who helps him is actually a fourth story and being true and narrated by the real person as a documentary within a movie is cluttered and slows down the entire film. Her story could have been told differently and intertwined then with a singular story and not a trilogy because that's who she ended up helping anyway. I would give this a 5.5 out of a possible 10 and would recommend it only because of it's inspiration and not as an entire film in general.
Review of Be with Me
