We went this last weekend to see "Amazing Grace" the story of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce worked for 20 years as a Member of the British Parliament to end the slave trade and eventually slavery. The movie was phenomenal. I had read about Wilberforce in a Christian History magazine about 10 years ago and knew him to be an amazing man, but I didn't realize that he was such close friends with William Pitt (the Prime Minister), Olaudah Equiano (the slave who bought his freedom and wrote about his experiences on a slave ship) and John Newton (the former slave trader who was converted and eventually wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace". I would highly recommend this movie. It is so well done.

Of course I dragged my husband and children to the movie. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth from T. who had just checked out a book from the library and wanted to read that instead. It didn't help that we went to the cheap $2 theater in Cleburne. There's a reason its only $2. The film must have been formatted for a wide screen and played on a full screen because all the people were short and fat and looked like hobbits. Then, in most of the scenes you could see the boom mike used in filming just above the actors heads. So distracting. We asked for our money back then drove to two more theaters before we found one that was showing it.

B. and I really liked it. A. said she liked it and T. of course said she didn't like it. But I think she was determined NOT to like it. I think it was a little above their heads but it still exposed them to a great man. I will definitely buy this one when it comes out on DVD.