It gets harder and harder to make it through movies with kids in bad situations. This is a very emotionally affecting movie that thankfully has enough of a fairy tale aspect to not throw you completely into despair. I was really swept into the story and definitely needed kleenex for the last 10 minutes or so.

On the other hand, while it completely works within the mood & tone of the film, but there is a LOT of soft-focus fuzzy filmmaking throughout the flick and there were several points at which my eyes had just really had enough of that (I’m such a cranky old lady).