"her name is hope"

"you give out hope like it was candy in your pocket"

the postman

post-apocalyptic america. 

a drifter who finds a bag of mail...

what begins as a con game becomes one man's quest to rebuild civilization by resuming postal service and unwittingly restoring hope to a country that is nearly completely

without it...

kevin costner plays a drifter who stumbles across and old abandoned u.s. mail truck and crawls inside to keep warm...

while he is in there, along with the long dead corpse of a postman, he finds a bag of letters that were never delivered and reads them by the the light of a cigarette lighter...

he then takes the bag of letters and the uniform of the postman, which

 he takes solely for warmth,

and poses as a 

letter carrier and with empty promises of aid from the "restored united states of america," gives hope to a community threatened by local warlords...

this is one of my all-time favorite movies and i picked it for a couple of reasons...

first of all:

of course it goes along with great our letter theme...

it also has a great reluctant hero

and kevin costner, in my opinion, 

is fantastic in this movie... 

it is incredibly patriotic  

i always love to watch it this time of year...

i think the quality of of movie that has a villain in it

is almost completly defined by the 

quality of that villain...

will patton is general bethlehem

and is so charming and creepy...

he is incredible...

  

and last but not least...

it has tom petty as the bridge city mayor...

my favorite quote from this movie is when kevin costner's character says to him "i know you, you're...famous."

and tom petty replies 

"yea, i was once, sorta".

some other lines i loved:

general bethlehem: you see the reason you don't want to die for anything is because you have nothing to die for. that's the difference between you and me. you don't believe in anything. 

the postman: i believe in the united states

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the postman: wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? 

(at the end of the movie, abby introduces the postman to her baby)
abby: this is your daughter...
her name is hope.

this movie is great for the patrotic season...

i loved it...

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