The Elephant King

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04/23/2012 just ok family drama about 2 brothers in thailand See more 12/09/2011 The movie reminded me of my life in Thailand. I felt I have got a warning about falling in love with a native girl and worrying my family home. See more 12/01/2011 not a good movie, but it made me miss Thailand so I liked it See more 11/17/2011 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] An interesting film that really kept my attention. See more 10/25/2010 I watched this movie on Netflix.com. This was a very interesting movie. The only "star" that I recognized is Ellen Burstyn plays the Mom in a dysfunctional family with two adult sons. Ellen's portrayal is so real, she loves her sons and is totured trying to help them and balance tough love at the same time. Tate Ellington is very good as the younger son who deals with depression and suicidal tendancies. He goes to Thailand to stay with his troubled older brother who is running from legal problems, and has heavy drinking and drug issues. Tate has only been in fairly minor roles in other movies, but he does show great promise in this tortured and sensitive role. Recommended if you like unusual and indie type movies, and want to feel almost lie you have been to Thailand in the process! See more 04/27/2010 I can't believe [i]Beverly Hills Chihuahua[/i] has a higher freshness rating on RT than [i]The Elephant King[/i]. That is just insane. Who pays these reviewers to give these asinine movies good reviews? And what is up with all the bad reviews for [i]The Elephant King[/i]? Not only do I think the movie was quite well written, which most of the reviewers seem to disagree with, and well acted, but it is also based on real experiences. So how can reviewers call it stereotypical? Maybe there is some truth to the idea that stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, because they represent reality well. Of course, I might be a little biased because I have been to Thailand and had the experiences represented in this film as a foreigner in a strange and exotic land. It seems like most of the reviewers don't get out of their Lazyboys often enough to truly experience life abroad or they have just become too jaded to remember what it was like to be young and traveling in a foreign land full of excitement and cheap thrills. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would go see it again and again. Hopefully it will stay around long enough for that to happen. Maybe some real people, not phony-ass movie reviewers, need to write some decent reviews of [i]The Elephant King[/i] so that its freshness will exceed that of the epically stale [i]Beverly Hills Chihuahua[/i]. One can only hope. See more Read all reviews

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