You can't beat us on the grade! In which we and Candace Jane Opper pack into a Plymouth Valiant sedan and talk Stephen Spielberg's Duel while we try to outrun a tanker truck from Hell.
What if dads taught their kids to deescalate rather than to retaliate? To prioritize love over conflict? What if men learned from their trauma, and shared their lessons with their families? The War is an under-appreciated classic — a kids movie that tries to show the destructive nature of cycles of violence. It is hokey and fantastic, but it dares imagine another way for dads to be. You don’t have to have seen this 1995 Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood vehicle about addressing post-Vietnam trauma ...
