Across Grace Alley(Short Movie)(Ralph Macchio,2013):USA

Reviewed by Felice Larsson, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2014.

A 10 year old boy is getting dropped  of at his grandmas house. His parents are getting a divorce and doesn’t want him to be around all drama. The boy is sad and don’t want to do anything but his grandma is trying to get him to sing. He said he didn’t believed that would work. One day he looks out of the window he sees this dancing woman in her apartment. He is getting very fascinated by the woman and every day he starts to look out the window. Another day, a man is entering her apartment. First the woman welcome the man with a loving hand, and the next they start to fight. The boy is getting curious and looks wile the man and woman are moving in the apartment. When the boy was waiting in the church wile his grandma was singing in queue he sees the woman light a candle. He walks up to her. “How long he has been watching me” she said. “Maby once..or twice” he said. She tells him about her relationship with the man and says that’s complicated.  Day after day he just stand in his room watch the woman dance, having dance lessons and kisses the guy,fights with the guy. The boy is trying to dance like her and finally he gets why his grandma wanted him to sing.

Across Grace Alley is a 25 min movie directed and written by Ralph Macchio. Starring  Ben Hayland who plays the boy, a charming little kid I think has brilliant future in the movie business. Karina Smirnoff, a lovely dancer known for her participation in Dancing with the stars. Also Marsha Mason as the grandmother. Ralph together with those three actors made this film so beautiful and so enjoyable to watch. I love the piano music that plays that plays along the film and that they are not that many dialog’s because it’s not needed. That’s what makes the the movie complete.