The forgotten sweatshirt.

A beautiful morning and there's a beautiful (and HOT) week forecast ahead.

A couple of movies:

Philomena (2013), Judi Dench, Steve Coogan. Based on the true story of an unwed pregnant woman sent to a convent where she gives birth to a son, the nuns/church then puts the child up for adoption and the birth mother never sees her child again. Fifty years later the woman tries to track down her child with the help of a journalist. This movie was based on the book written by Martin Sixsmith called The Lost Child of Philomena Lee. Watching movies that are semi-documentary are always tricky, and I wasn't that thrilled with this and wish I'd read the book instead. I know the movie was well received but I found much of the movie grating and too cutesy.

August: Osage County (2013), Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, et al. A stage play adapted into a movie, and it felt it, I found as I was watching it that it really was more of a play. Anyway, the story is of a dysfunctional family (alcoholism, drug addiction, incest, adultery...) who descend en masse to the family home in Oklahoma for a funeral. It was a little exhausting to watch and is a story we've all seen before in various movies over the years. To quote a review I'd read a while ago, it was a "thespian cage match" which sums it up perfectly!

Kind of disappointed with these last two movies, hopefully the next on the list will be better!