Terry Hunter reviews ONE LIFE

Updated: Mar. 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM HST
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Sir Anthony Hopkins is in his 80’s now, with over a hundred movies on his acting resume and four more due out this year. His most recent film is based on a true story. And he’s as good as ever in ONE LIFE, a very strong drama based on the true story of Nicholas Winton, a London stockbroker who organized the efforts to save 669 Jewish children from the Nazis in 1938 and then felt bad for many years because he couldn’t save more of them. The children’s families had fled from the Nazi occupied part of Czechoslovakia to its capital city and were living in desperate circumstances on its streets. The rescue effort was a high stress race to get the children out of the country before Hitler closed the border. Winton as a young man is played by Johnny Flynn. Helena Bonham Carter plays his mother. As as an old man in the late 1980’s, Winton’s heroics are finally recognized by the public. ONE LIFE will likely bring tears to your eyes. (Kahala Mall and Dole Cannery)