Yes, I am slightly behind the times.

I'm not much of a movie buff-- my husband absolutely loves movies, but we don't go to the movies much (if ever, actually). There's just something about the cost of going to the movies that we can't get over and of course, my husband and I rarely agree on what movies we want to see. I love crime dramas, semi-action movies, in addition to the typical chick flicks. But my husband loves the scary, blood everywhere, suspense kind of movies. Cannot not handle.

Anyways, I digress.

Last night, our typical Friday night includes laziness and sometimes a movie (if I manage to stay awake past 8PM-- hey, give me a break, I work early on Fridays). So last night, my husband flips on John Q.

Have you ever seen this movie before? Absolutely, positively heart wrenching and it really made me sit back and think, what would I do if I were in the situation? Would I have the courage to do as John Q did? Would I be willing to sacrifice everything, even my life, for my child?

Okay, so that's a duh moment. Of course I would. But just the way the movie spoke to my heart... that uncontrollable feeling of knowing that there is absolutely nothing you can do to change what is happening to you child and doing whatever possible to try and prevent the worst from happening.

Totally not the same thing as a life threatening disease (or any disease at all), but just being so helpless with my kids are sick... Junior is just getting over strep throat (We both came down with a case of strep this week) and the complete helplessness of watching your child so sick and not being able to take that away from him and knowing that I really would have given anything to make him feel better.

Seriously amazing movie. I was impressed. Any movie that speaks to me on such a visceral level definitely gets my recommendation.