Uncorked/Higher Love/At Sachem Farm is a feel
good movie about following your bliss whose subtitle could be “Don’t
Worry Be Happy”. The protagonist is a young unemployed stockbroker named
Ross who is desperately trying to make the one successful investment
that will provide his family financial solvency, and induce his
reluctant girlfriend to marry him. His efforts are thwarted along the
way by his Uncle Cullen, dismissed by his girlfriend Kendal, and
unnoticed by his Brother Paul who has been consumed creating an
expensive arboretum on the farm for the past two years.
Ross, good intentioned
but lacking in personal insight, has stubbornly focused on goals that
will if realized, benefit neither himself nor his family. Uncle Cullen
is a man of advancing years attempting to share gained wisdom with his
nephew by interfering with his plans while seeking to reach his own
personal nirvana. There appears to be no limit to the heights he will go
to in order to teach his lessons, and set his family and friend’s lives
on the paths he perceives as correct.
Ross is strained
practically to the breaking point by his Uncles apparent lunacy, his
girlfriend’s refusal to support his venture, and his gentle brother’s
lack of involvement with his effort to save the family farm. Uncle
Cullen enlists the help of a friend of Kendal’s named Laurie whom he
describes as “the young girl with the old soul” to bring his plans to
fruition.
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