About A Hero's Gift

Two heroes cross paths on Christmas day, a Vietnam veteran and a little boy.

Movie Details

Language: English

Year of production: 2009

Length: 10:00

Country: United States

Original source

Filmmaker's Personal Web TV

Film Annex


  • Directors:
    Phil Vaira
  • Producers:
    Phil Vaira
  • Actors:
    Jacob Gault, Dick McMahon, Jacqueline Gault, Michael Plucar, Madeleine Young, Esahm James Van Huss, Casey Halverson, Keone Stevans
  • Film Festivals:
    NW Short Film Showcase

Comments

  • Jeffrey Bowers on 29 March at 23:07

    Phil,

    Your film is very touching and has a lot of heart. If I could offer some constructive criticism, I believe your characters are drained of any emotional heft by blunt dialogue and undeveloped conflicts. There are subtler more affecting ways to reveal a child's domestic difficulties than having voiceover's state within the first 30 seconds that he has a cheating, alcoholic step-father and a inept mother. Later in the film, you touch on the internal conflict of the son when he calls the police to protect his mother, yet she yells at him. He didn't know what he did wrong, he was tormented. I would love to see you explore the son's anxiety due to not understanding his mother's desperate need to cling to an abusive husband, (which she apparently does a lot!). Thanks for your film and I can't wait to see what you do next.

  • mohammed adul-alanboo on 12 October at 15:21

    this movie sucks

  • Aili Ndiikeva on 09 October at 22:03

    What a naughty small boy. So good....

  • jerlen on 03 September at 10:08

    huhuhu.........it made me cry.

  • tangmoist on 18 August at 09:16

    make me cry.I deeply

  • ntsiful on 15 August at 09:39

    I REALLY LOVE IT

  • Hmmm123 on 11 August at 16:45

    cool

  • christian Magtalas on 11 August at 08:11

    very touching movie. God seems absent at tyms but when he suprise us there is a bigger gift that he will give.