The Cider House Rules Blu-ray - Award-Winning Drama Film - Perfect for Movie Nights & Home Theater Collections

There are films just like books that I go back and watch (read) over and over again. This is one of them. Without going into the production side of this film (which is technically superior ,especially the editing and screen writing) you are watching great actors tell a wonderful ,touching story . At the center of the story is Homer an orphan and a young man past the age of adoption. Unlike most orphans living in an orphanage Homer does have a place ,a purpose there .He is loved and needed by all that live there. However, this world is too narrow for him and he decides to experience the "outside" world. After all he is a young man and past the age of adoption. The second world war is brewing but he is not physically eligible (bad heart).He leaves this world of its daily repetiveness.Homer leaves and now he hopes to experience the entire gambit of emotions from the people he will meet and touch. Romantic love, joy, heartache, and friendship,to name a few await him.He is not prepared for some of the powerful negative emotions that will come with each one of these new experiences. Homer is needed in this outside world as much as he was needed at the orphanage. The difference being not much is predictable in this new setting. At first this is very attractive to him . His eyes are wide open.He wants to take in everything. But he is not prepared to handle all these new wonders with the disappointments that goes with each new experience.At the orphanage which is managed by his father figure (played brillantly by Michael Caine )cannot understand why Homer wants to put himself through all the pain this outside world will throw at him. There are now decisions Homer will have to make to survive in this new world . This world has people of color which the orphanage did not.There are beautiful young women that now he can try and build a relationship . There are co workers , bosses, new people he knows he will meet.He expects the joy and the pleasure of new relationships but does not realize that there can also be real pain in these new relationships. At the orphanage he was a practicing doctor and now on the outside he is an apple picker .He seems happy at first but life plays dirty tricks with which Homer is forced to deal.There are painful decisions to be made.This is all very confusing for him.The question becomes where was he the most happy and where was he needed the most.Which world offers him true happiness and a sense of belonging.