AFI Fest 2007: Day Four – Feel-Good with a Conscience

My fourth day at AFI Fest 2007 brought a close to the first of the two stints in which I saw films during the festival. (I resumed attending screenings on the following Friday, during the festival’s second weekend.) For the most part, I highly enjoyed the first half of AFI Fest, only having to endure one total stinker (Déficit) during the four days. On the final day of the long festival weekend that I invented for myself (I skipped the one Monday-class that I had in favor of staying for the Centerpiece Gala), I tried to schedule light-hearted crowd-pleasers to relieve myself from some of the heavy-hitters that I had seen in screenings prior. Unfortunately, only one of the three was able to function as a work of more than just pleasant cinematic diversion. [Read more]