A few years ago, I had the good fortune to be introduced to “Nine Good Teeth” and to its director, Alex Halpern (by Bob, who at the time of writing is running just one very small point behind leader Andy in the Successful Suggesters list).  Thanks to her grandson’s charming monument to her, Mary Mirabito Livornese Cavaliere, who many of you “met” for the first time on the MovieNight screen as “Nana”, continues to command admiration from the grave. Nana died in January of last year at the age of 107.

As you can imagine, we try very hard to generate interest in upcoming MovieNight features, not just for the sake of just getting butts on sofas, but more importantly to introduce folk to great movies that they might otherwise miss completely. That process involves making a tempting “snippet” of visuals and sounds, and finding a good review to post on the web page. In this case, mostly becaus the film was so little known, it was impossible to find a good review, so I ended up having to use material from the movie’s own website.  There were bad reviews, mind you… critics seemed to be bothered that this movie “doesn’t go anywhere”. Who gives a %*$# if it doesn’t go anywhere? It travels around the heart like a shot of Danny Bo’s chocolate vodka. To me that’s going somewhere.

Judging from your reaction last night to Nine Good Teeth, you agree.