Never Forget

Audience Reviews

View All (2) audience reviews

Audience Member This is one of the best movies I've ever seen and is one of my most favorite movies of all time Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Mel Mermelstein is a regular American guy in California in the 1980's. He is the small business owner of a lumberyard, and has a beautiful wife and several all-American kids. He is also an expert on the Holocaust, because he was there in Auschwitz as a victim when he was a teenager---he is the sole survivor of his entire family of Hungarian Jews, sent to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. Three great actors combine talents to tell one man's true story of his legal fight against hate and historical revisionism from Holocaust-deniers. The subsequent court cases in the 1980's established for the first time in U. S. case law that the Holocaust is an undeniable fact of history, not subject to reasonable or legal dispute. The movie does have the "feel" of a "made-for-TV-movie" in some ways, and it probably gets dinged for that by some viewers. But the story is all the more compelling because First, it is true; Second, it happened here in America; and Third, aspects of it continue to happen in the revisionism of antisemitic politicians, some corners of modern academia, and far right hate groups, excelled only by far left hate groups on the rise today. Leonard Nimoy put his heart into this production, because he believed its message was so important. Henry Mancini provided the music, and Joseph Sargent directed. Blythe Danner plays Mel's supportive and beautiful Southern Baptist wife from Tennessee, and Dabney Coleman is eminently watchable as a tough good guy Irish Catholic ex-cop-turned-lawyer from Lubbock, Texas, representing Mel Mermelstein. A fine supporting cast rounds out the good guys and bad. But the most remarkable thing is that it's a true story, with the real characters' names used. The film has the framework of a documentary, fleshed out by the dramatic talents of the cast and script. Nimoy produced and co-wrote the screenplay. Here in 2020, this movie is 29 years old, and counting. Mel Mermelstein is 93 and still living. Leonard Nimoy has passed away. But I give this movie 5 stars because I think it really is fresh---to me anyway. You really need to see this movie. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Never Forget

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Most Popular at Home Now