A Lobster Tale
A Lobster Tale

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Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the school bully. While out collecting his lobster traps one day, Cody finds a strange green moss that holds magical powers. Once word gets out about the magical moss, the entire town suddenly becomes Cody's best friend, all hoping to get a piece of it. With the townspeople clamoring for some moss and the already delicate state of the B... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in A Lobster Tale:

Colm Meaney
Alberta Watson
Graham Greene
Jack Knight
Cliff Saunders
Joe Pingue

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Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the school bully. While out collecting his lobster traps one day, Cody finds a strange green moss that holds magical powers. Once word gets out about the magical moss, the entire town suddenly becomes Cody's best friend, all hoping to get a piece of it. With the townspeople clamoring for some moss and the already delicate state of the Brewer family, Cody has a tough time figuring out exactly what to do.

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User Review - 6/10 by Edith NWeak but Charming I like Colm Meaney. I do. I've been amused for years at the idea that every movie set at least in part in Ireland is required to have him in it. (He had about the only convincing Irish accent in [i]Far and Away[/i]!) I would not, alas, have cast him here. He just doesn't fit. Now, a lot of the problem is the terrible, terrible accent. I almost turned it off just because of that. It's not that I can't think of him as a sort of . . . you know, you can't call him a man of the soil, on account of it's a little on the wet side for that, but that sort of thing. Sod farmer. Lobster fisherman. There isn't a huge distinction, really. At least not when it comes to popular image. Maybe it's something to do with bringing food to market. At any rate, it's more that he never seems comfortable as this particular lobster fisherman, not so much lobster fishermen in general. Meaney plays Cody Brewer, a hard-up man with a wife, Martha (Alberta Watson), who must hold a job at the local fish and chip shop to help pay the bills; and a son, Jake (Jack Knight), who is ashamed of the life they lead compared to the store-owner's son, Timmy Brock (Erik Knudsen). Then one day, while checking his lobster pots, Cody finds a bright green wad of moss in one of them. He takes it out and puts it in an old tin can, because it moves the story along. The next day, the motor on his boat cuts out again, and while he's fiddling with it, he accidentally cuts off his finger. He manages to retrieve it, and when he goes to put it in the can so it can be sewn back on, hopefully, when he gets to land, there is a bright light, and the moss saves him the hospital bill. Once the rest of the town finds out that little trick, he is hounded without rest. About the only person who doesn't much seem to care about the moss one way or another is the local sheriff, another in the long line of delightful performances of Graham Greene. For all he appears to be hopelessly addicted to iced cappuccino, he's an extremely mellow guy. He doesn't have a bunion or a third nipple he wants treated or a wild idea for a moss-themed amusement park. He's trying to learn French, but that's about it. When the moss gets stolen, he's perfectly trustworthy to investigate the crime, because he has no interest in it himself. Perhaps it's that he doesn't want the troubles which afflict Cody. He also seems to be about the only person who realizes how hard things are for Cody, and one feels that any of the other characters might lay their troubles before him and get a sympathetic ear, though his sympathy is not the same for everyone. A dead husband over a third nipple, you might say. Honestly, the person who might want listening to the most is Martha Brewer. On those rare occasions when I give relationship advice--I don't like doing it and few of my friends need it anyway--the first piece of advice I give is "use your words." Martha's problem is that she can't use hers to tell Cody how much she wants him to use his. She loves him very much, but she's afraid he's started taking her for granted. Her first appearance has her wearing perfume, which he doesn't notice. She gets a new haircut, and he asks her--when Jake points the change out to him--what was wrong with her hair before. She goes to change out of her flannel pajamas and into a sexy little red nightdress, and he's asleep before she gets back. It's killing her a little inside every time something new happens. And the only sympathetic ear she has is her coworker, Eddie Johnson (Mark Lutz), whose interest in her is, shall we say, not exactly brotherly. Nice, friendly Graham Greene would be quite an improvement. More complicated to me is Jake himself. On the one hand, I understand his embarrassment; in one scene, Timmy is pestering him in class, and you can see the holes in the elbow of his shirt. His pants don't reach his ankles and are falling apart anyway; his idea of luxury, when he thinks they're going to get rich, is to buy ten pairs of pants. (Half a million dollars doesn't go as far as all that anyway; a smart family would save a lot of that for Jake's college fund.) On the other, he really doesn't seem to understand that they're poor. He knows they are, but he seems to feel it's more a burden on him than something which is hard for his parents as well. I'm not saying it isn't a bit silly when Cody yells at him for wanting relish for his hot dog, too, but there are several places where he does want obvious luxury even though he knows they're in danger of having the phone cut off. And, no, he shouldn't have to like Timmy anyway. Even if someone is very sick, that doesn't make them a better person.
User Review - 6/10 by James HNice story, but it does wear thin after a bit. Inspiring with a good moral, very nicely acted, good atmosphere and well written. It is a bit schmaltzy though.
User Review - 6/10 by Sheila CEnchanting story about a community united when an ordinary man discovers something extraordinary
User Review - 6/10 by Jeff SEnchanting story about a community united when an ordinary man discovers something extraordinary
User Review - 6/10 by Sarah HThis film had some nice acting moments, and really had a sense of place. A nice movie for a Saturday afternoon!
User Review - 6/10 by Benjamin FA decent enough little film with nice small town Maine cinematography and a folksy soundtrack. There's some definite talent in major roles, between Colm Meaney, Alberta Watson, and Graham Greene. But the story is stretched far too thin - you could drink yourself to death if you took a shot every time someone in the movie said "moss." And the premise of the film, focusing on magical moss that heals wounds and general health problems, is every bit as cheesy as you'd expect - as is the family drama beneath that. Content like a few nasty wounds and impotence humor - including old man ass and blatant implication of the same old man rather epically getting a piece in one scene keep it from really being the family film you'd expect with its premise, and it makes it feel overall like a film that might've worked better in Europe - perhaps as an Irish tale by filmmakers there. It has enough of a feel of trying to be that sort of film anyway, and reminds a bit of Diggers, with its focus on New England fishermen, but it doesn't have nearly as much depth or substance. Overall, it's pleasant enough to warrant a single viewing, but if you pass on it, frankly, you aren't missing too much either. Meaney, Watson, and Greene are generally the best reasons to give it a look.
User Review - 4/10 by Private UThis movie was pretty lame. Pretty slow and the fact that people get dismembered makes me want to say it's not totally a family film. A little too preachy with the stupid cure all moss and I could have done without the fat old man and his "problem" and I'm sure the kiddies would say the same.
User Review - 4/10 by Patrick RI liked the story but the acting was appalling. Why Meney went for this is beyond me.
User Review - 2/10 by Phil WWith the exception of the two main characters, this movie is full of bad acting, bad story lines, bad special effects, bad directing, and bad writing. It might keep a young kids attention, but not our 11 year old. It was a waste of time.

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