2002, directed by Phillip Noyce
I had never previously seen this film, but kept it in the back of my mind for years, after reading a review by Roger Ebert who thought the story was devastating, and the filmmaking astonishing. It is a great film, but it’s ironic that the thing that so “devastated” Ebert in 2002 (namely, the forced separation of minority children and parents) would become US government policy in 2017 under Donald Trump. I was always conscious of my audience at The Rainier Club (figuring that at least half of them probably vote Republican), so I tried to stay politically neutral in my intros. Sometimes, the film speaks for itself.