7/5/2023 0 Comments 7 days in utopia![]() ![]() ![]() The film's charm comes from its lighter moments. And Black, an avid golfer, makes a very convincing pro. "Seven Days" is beautifully shot - all rosy-hued back-lit back-swings. The movie opens with a Bible quotation - Isaiah 30:21, "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way walk in it."But the film seems to lose its nerve about this, too, soft-selling religion as it rubs rough edges off the characters. Perhaps that explains the lack of heat in the meltdown. In flashbacks, we see the (mildly) domineering dad who set the stage for Luke's bad day and get a sense of the (mild, again) pressures the kid is under. But ask 40 golfers about their worst tantrum on the course, and 35 of them will top this milder-than-mild one. Yeah, it's a game about decorum and self-control, and yes, this blow-up happens on TV. If golf is "a good walk, spoiled," then "Seven Days" is a potentially good golf movie stuck in a water hazard - as in "watered down." It goes in the rough with the staging of Luke's infamous "meltdown." "I need to know why you do the things you do," Johnny says. ![]() But mostly, this is about Johnny playing golf guru to Luke - making him visualize and "paint" (literally) the shot he visualizes, ordering him to learn balance by standing up in a canoe, patience by fly fishing. Oscar winner Melissa Leo and wonderful character actress Kathy Baker are here to lend, well, character. And he meets the fetching Sarah (Deborah Ann Woll), who is "trainin' to be a horse whisperer." Luke takes life lessons from Johnny, lessons that can be applied on the course. He takes the golfer in (Luke has dinged his car) and makes him ponder the great questions of golf - "How could a game have such an affect on a man's soul?" Robert Duvall is the sage old rancher, Johnny Crawford, a fellow who enters Luke's life on horseback. We then follow Luke as he flees the spotlight and the embarrassment of his worst day on the course, turning up at a ranch in a small town where he figures nobody will know who he is. We've met the somewhat domineering dad (Joseph Lyle Taylor) who still caddies for his son and caused Luke to snap. Cook's self-help novel, "Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia," first-time director Matt Russell's film follows aspiring pro Luke Chisholm (Black) as he explodes in a contained fury in a televised tourney where he had hoped to earn his pro tour card. Faith and "fore" walk hand in hand - sort of - in this soft-centered faith-based drama starring Lucas Black of "Friday Night Lights," "Get Low" and "Jarhead."īased on David L. That's followed by seven days of perspective-patching among mild-mannered God-fearing folk in rural Texas. In "Seven Days in Utopia," a mild-mannered young golfer has a mild meltdown in the middle of a tournament. "SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA" - ★★ - Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Melissa Leo, Kathy Baker, Deborah Ann Woll G (nothing offensive) in general release ![]()
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