Movie #900 ........................."700 Sundays"

Movie #900  "700 Sundays" is being shown a few times this month on HBO, with the first showing on Saturday night -- in Arizona we have been lucky to have HBO for a while (we wanted to see the Ed Barens' Documentary when that was on, so we got HBO).  Anyway, when we found out Billy Crystal's show that was on Broadway (from his delightful book that we both read about his dad) was being aired on HBO Saturday before Easter, we made sure to tune in, and we are very happy we did.  It was wonderful.  He skipped a lot of things in the book, to be sure (it is only 2 hours), but he took many of the memorable excerpts from the book and put them in his stage performance.   What fun relatives he acted out.  He has the house on stage and he also has him going through it in video, which he has projected on the windows of the house.  It is a very theatrical rendition of a very, very good book about the 700 Sundays he had with his dad (he died when Billy was 15) , and it takes you through the baseball sundays, the jazz sundays (his dad ran the Commodore store in NYC) , the family sundays, etc.  and the day he died.  It is inspiring, funny (laugh out loud at times) and poignant. He's one talented guy who is able to tell stories like no other, so we highly recommend it --- see it on HBO if you can this month.  If not, look for the dvd when it comes out.  He's sure to win a tony for this in June.

700 Sundays (2014 TV Movie - HBO)  about 2 hours          I give it 5 stars out of 5.

• In 700 Sundays, legendary comedian and actor Billy Crystal tells the stories of his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years, and finally adulthood. The Tony Award-winning show is a funny and poignant exploration of family and fate, loving and loss.