Yellow Brick Road
DVD NVG 132
If watching a group of mentally disabled adults work to put on a stage production of The Wizard of Oz does not melt your heart, then I don’t know what will. And if it indeed does not, then I just have to say that you are a cold person who needs to spend more time with stuffed animals and rainbows. But I digress.
The film Yellow Brick Road, which has received a wide variety of awards at various independent film festivals (thereby proving its excellence), documents the four month-long process of Long Island’s ANCHOR (Answering the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps Through Organized Recreation) organization in their efforts to stage an extravagant production of the Wizard of Oz. Beginning with the announcements of everyone’s individual roles (which includes many joyful tears, excited jumps up and down and frantic phone calls to mom), the movie then goes on to depict the challenging rehearsals and the personal obstacles and triumphs that each actor works through, finally ending with the much-anticipated opening night.
Yellow Brick Road is certainly a film which will just make you feel good about life, which I think everyone needs once in awhile. Especially those cold-hearted people out there.
Written by Sarah
