Kim & Krickitt Carpenter

Kim & Krickitt Carpenter, In 1993, Kim and Krickitt got in their car to go visit family for their first Thanksgiving together as a married couple. Hours later, the two woke in a hospital and their lives were changed forever.
The Vow isn’t just another cheesy Hollywood love story about something that would never really happen– it was actually based on the real life couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who endured the same terrible tragedy that Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum) did in the movie.

Kim and Krickitt were in a two-truck collision leading Krickitt to go in a coma for weeks after the accident. When she finally woke up she had amnesia and couldn’t remember the past 18 months of her life all of which included Kim.

Kim said in an interview with a local news station (video below) that when Krickitt finally woke up from the accident the doctors would ask “who’s your husband” and she responded saying “I’m not married.” So sad!

Krickitt, understandably, would get frustrated with Kim and tell him to “go back where you’re from.” But Krickitt says that she made a promise (a VOW) and it was her faith that kept her and Kim together.

The couple wrote a book in 1996, The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story, which is set to be re-released now that the movie is in theaters.

Now whether or not the real story was full of ex-fiances, divorce, and crazy parent-love affairs we don’t know, but it was based on this couple who had to start from the beginning, getting the know each other all over again after already being married.

True Grit John Wayne

True Grit John Wayne, “True Grit” – A new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (not a remake of 1969 film, John Wayne, G-rated on the video), “True Grit” is breathtaking. Yet it is problematic for college students because it depicts the dark anarchy, violence including gun and knife, draperies, fighting, abuse Occasional (if rather sweet) American Indian children and mistreatment of animals. This disorder is probably pretty intense and graphic for an R. For older teens and adults, however, that “True Grit” is a brilliantly spun yarn. Co-directors/writers Joel and Ethan Coen celebrate the language. Everyone speaks in a hilarious flowery literary style. It is the frontier after the Civil War. Wonderful 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) comes to Fort Smith, Arkansas; hire a lawyer to kill the thief (a frightening Josh Brolin), who murdered his father. She lands in a state of drunkenness and disorder-Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and comic / heroic Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon). The three parties in an epic quest, strange.
In 1969, when “True Grit” played in theaters, the Americans were in search of heroes like John Wayne to show them the nobility. Today, there is much less of a hero, and we do not expect much nobility, even in movies. ”

I expect a large audience agreed. Not me, although I acknowledge the tug of emotions that O’Reilly knew he could tap when he wrote these words.