Together Again for the First Time

Together Again for the First Time

One of the things that is so great about Netflix is that when you take out the fact that it's a mail service, it really is the video store that we've been dreaming of for years- one that has pretty much anything that your little heart could desire. Anything from the newest releases to the most obscure, out of print releases are available with the click of a mouse. With this benefit, how could a video store, with its outdated brick and mortar build and a finite amount of films in a store ever compete?

Well, this is an example of it- the film Together Again for the First Time, the movie that the Internet seemingly forgot. If you check on Netflix, this film is not there. Likewise, there's almost no information for it on Rotten Tomatoes, with its description being as follows:

The Wolders-Frobisher family hasn't been in the same house since their parents marriage seven years before. The long awaited reunion this holiday season would normally be cause to celebrate, if they could only stand each other's company--but they can't. Matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced television broadcast, and the revelation of a dark family secret.

Compare this to the description on the back of the DVD:

The Wolders-Frobisher family hasn't been in the same house since their parents marriage seven years before. The long awaited reunion this holiday season would normally be cause to celebrate, if they could only stand each other's company--but they can't. Matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced television broadcast, and the revelation of a dark family secret. Together Again for the First Time reminds us of the importance of family- even when you don't like each other very much.

THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW that this movie was forgotten by mankind. No Netflix examples, no Rotten Tomatoes. Through the Rotten Tomatoes website, only two people can verify reviews of this to prove that, at one point in time, this movie was ever made...and now, from picking it up in this haul, so can I.

What does this tell me when seeing the movie?

Quite frankly, I would have been happier with my purchase if, when putting the DVD into my Playstation 3, I put in through the DVD menu and saw Sadako come out of my TV screen. In both cases, the film quality would have been just as similar- the only difference is I would 'actually' die in seven days after seeing it as opposed to merely wishing to die.

This film was forgotten for no real reason- unless you consider that the film is the same old shit we get every Christmas. No matter what year, there's always going to be some movie that comes out to show the pain of the commercialization of the holiday, only to let us all reveal that true Christmas spirit comes in the love of your family- which can only be shown by taking out a second mortgage to buy everyone you know expensive presents. If you've seen one of these movies, you've seen them all, really- so it's hard to say much about it. There's nothing this mystery film could give you you wouldn't get from any of a hundred Christmas movies more easy to find.