Show r. I-r. I 1 i c 1 ii ilA O l G Jy d z s 5 i. i 4 W Y i r t A c I. I fl 3 t 0 y fir Y t t j s. s LP Kevin Costner plays a supporting father who tries to teach his son Elijah Wood the meaning of tolerance The War Way Kevin Costner's Family Flick By Lesa Mathewson Contributing Writer TIle The War is a real-life real drama with Kevin Costner in a supporting role as a father returning from Vietnam Marc Mare Winningham plays the mother who works two jobs to keep her family fed and together Everything had changed after their father went to Vietnam The only thing that Elijah Wood as Stu and Lexi Randall Randall Randall Ran Ran- dall as Lidia understood was that they had lost their home and the only life they ever knew Stu and Lidia have learned they cannot depend on anybody but themselves They build a with their friends to escape from the world Stu and Lidia alone against ignorant teachers hostile neighbors and bullies that live down the road Their father refuses to give up his hopes to improve his family's lives He has a hard time understanding his own government They send him to war Then he tries to work but gets fired because he spent time in a mental hospital for traumatic post-traumatic stress disorder from Vietnam The government will give him food stamps but not a job Stu really looks up to him but butha ha has a hard time understanding what his father went through His father tries to convince him that fighting doesn't solve anything but Stu has hasto hasto hasto to learn the hard way just like his fa father father father fa- fa ther did Lidia feels perfectly justified in taking things from the junkyard junkyard junkyard junk junk- yard to build a Many of the things she takes originally came fi from fiam m the home that her family lost The children work very hard building their They refuse to turn it over to those junkyard rats- rats the bullies Even though their father wouldn't approve of their behavior Stu and Lidia go to towar towar towar war over the tree house It was a fight they were going to win The junk fashioned tree house had become their home The father tries to make Stu understand understand understand un un- un- un that it is very dangerous to look at the world in terms of black and white He tries to let Stu know that maybe the children are down on their luck There arc are a few surprises at the end that help the children understand understand under under- stand what their father went through The Thc story and acting are arc aregood good and I highly recommend seeing seeing seeing see see- ing The War Var |