21.   Also, Quaid proves that a feel-good movie can have its schmaltz and a serious, believable character, too.

22.   Although it flounders a bit at times, by the time the Hunley makes its fateful run, this TNT movie has full steam.

23.   Although the dispute died down, it highlighted the unfortunate effect even sensitively made books and movies can have in renewing the pain for their real-life subjects.

24.   Although the mitigating factor, I guess, is that the movie had in it two of the biggest movie stars of the time.

25.   Although the movie does have humor, it treats the subject of transsexuality with such high seriousness that it does not achieve the buoyancy usually associated with romantic comedy.

26.   Although the movie has some genuinely touching moments and several strong performances, its screenplay by Edwin de Vries veers unsteadily between ham-fisted exposition and cloying sentimentality.

27.   An old movie often has none of this material available, and generating it can take two years or more.

28.   And his movie has all the star power it needs.

29.   And I always thought that this movie had a lot to do with why I write the way I write.

30.   And Christmas movies in particular had an aura of their own.