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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Savoy Pictures
Salesrank: 17744
Released: September 26, 2000 |
| Our Price: $29.96 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In a time of prosperity and whole happy families Jeaane Holman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and her two sons Tom and Gunny (Joseph Mazello and Seth Mumy) are different. Jeanne's husband is missing in the Korean War and without him they are doing the best they can. But one day while driving with her children Jeanne runs into a drifter Jack McCloud (Patrick Swayze) an event that will change their live s forever. Jeanne invites the injured stranger and hi s dog Betty Jane into her home for a brief recuperation but before long the whole family find themselves wanting him to stay. The Holman family soon discovers that there is far more to Jack than meets the eye. - and he brings more to their home than just his scruffy four-legged friend. For Jeanne and her children are about too discover the magic that comes with the kindness of helping a stranger and what could be captured by just THREE WISHES.Running Time: 115 min.System Requirements: Running Time 115 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 026359129124
Description of Three Wishes:
What happens when a widowed mother and her two sons invite an injured drifter into their home? Put aside those modern, jaded visions of a psychotic killer on the rampage and enter the gentler, yet extremely rigid world of 1955 Suburbia USA. Jeanne Holman has lost her husband to the Korean War and is doing her best to support her family in a community that reveres conformity and frowns upon anyone who dares to be different. As Jeanne questions her chosen path, her oldest son Tom struggles to fit in with his peers and her youngest son, Gunny, who's frightened of virtually everything, is soon to be diagnosed with a serious illness. Enter a chance encounter with drifter Jack McCloud and his dog Betty Jane, and the pair temporarily move in with the Holman family. What essentially begins as one woman's act of guilt-induced charity evolves into a magical journey of personal growth for each family member. The end result is a wish come true for everyone involved. This film has widespread appeal: there's romance, magic, physical and spiritual journeys, self-revelation, and even a celebration of diversity and personal strength. The PG rating seems apt due to the film's intensity and one short almost nude scene. --Tami Horiuchi
Three Wishes Reviews:
Great family or any person movie! 
2009-02-15 - This is a great movie with a great theme. Why it didn't get 4 stars is beyond me! Probably because it is too "clean!" My wish is more movies are made this way, clean and with good messages!
A 1950's ghost-magic tale 
2009-01-11 - A mother with two sons is just facing that her husband, a flyer lost in Korea,may never return.
She accidentally hits a strange free spirited drifter and their lives are changed by the result.
In the end they get three wishes.
Patrick Swayze returns to grant Three Wishes!!
2008-05-04 - This is one of Patrick's best light hearted movies.
You have a family in need of a husband & father.
Patrick fills the role, until the father comes home from
tha war. The father went off to be a soldier, it was during
WWII. The father finally comes home from the war, and the oldest
son finds out once he become a father that JACK(Patrick) was a
soldier that had died in the war back when he was a kid.
I rate this movie a 9 from 1to10!!
More movies should have such integrity
2007-01-12 - This is a delightful movie. Not slick. So much feeling and some
delightful imagination. Wonderful morals. Good acting.
Great nostalgia for those of us who grew up in 50's/60's.
Excellent family film
2006-12-20 - This is a very powerful film with an excellent message. Know what is really important in life and never give up. Patrick Swayze plays a drifter with the power to grant wishes. Swayze does a great job in this film and makes his character fairly realistic. Joseph Mazzello (The Tissue King) puts his best foot forward showing why he's cast in so many tear jerkers. I love this film and have it in my collection.
