The Cider House Rules Reviews

The Cider House Rules is a movie that shows the true side of what happens to children left at an orphanage. The movie goes through the life of Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) who is a orphan himself. As the years progress the doctor of the orphanage Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine) teaches Homer all about being a doctor with the hope that Homer will take over the orphanage when the medical board decides to replace him.

Even though Homer loves the orphanage he feels drawn to the outside world when a young couple tells him what he is missing.

This is a touching movie that shows the sad story of children...

When friends wanted me to go with them to see this movie in the theater I really had no idea what it was about. While others have taken away many different messages from the movie, what struck me most were how sad it was to watch the children wondering what they could do to be "picked" by a family.
It is also a sad reminder of a time when orphans were not neccesarily adopted out of love, but out of need for an extra pair of hands to perform work.
While I enjoyed the coming of age story about the boy, it left me feeling a bit hollow. I did not read the book, so don't know if some critical piece...