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Evelyn (2002)
My kids enjoyed this
This is the true story of a father who battled some unfair Irish child custody laws about 50 years ago. He puts his kids in an orphanage, and then cannot get them back. He suffers from a prejudice that only mothers can raise kids.
I liked this movie because I identified with the father. To my surprise, my kids love this movie also. They've watched it about 10 times. This is partly because they've been the victims of a court-ordered custody change. But also, my daughters find the Evelyn Doyle character inspiring. She is calm and courageous and sensible in the face of a wrong system.
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The movie is a fraud
I am appalled at how many reviewers think that this is a factual or educational film. The movie is supposed to be about truth, but it is really a fictionalization with different names that completely reverses some of the events. The actual events of the 1925 Scopes trial would have been a better story.
The textbook used by Scopes (Hunter's Civic Biology taught that Piltdown Man was a missing link, that the caucasian is the highest of the races, and advocated eugenics. In reality, Piltdown Man was a fraud and so was some of the eugenics evidence. Darrow refused to let either his experts or himself be cross-examined about what was really being taught by the text.
Bryan was not a Biblical literalist. He opposed the teaching of evolution largely because of his longstanding opposition to eugenics.