Whoa Nelly. We just got home from seeing this. I remember reading some Upton Sinclair at some point in my life. College? High School? From my parents' library at home?

This was an absolutely astonishing film. Dennis and I looked around at the audience, and everyone seemed to be over 40. I heard on the radio the other day that people are reading less and less these days. Are they talking about everyone, or just the youngsters? I find that ... sobering.

From Wikipedia. Time magazine's Richard Schickel named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #9, calling Daniel Day Lewis’ performance “astonishing”, and calling the film “a mesmerizing meditation on the American spirit in all its maddening ambiguities: mean and noble, angry and secretive, hypocritical and more than a little insane in its aspirations.”

Oh. Yeah.