Talk:The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry

Plot
This section is written as if it's to entice the reader to go see the movie. A plot summary should accurately sum up the plot of a movie; not leave the reader in suspense as to what happens.Mk5384 (talk) 17:47, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I filled in the rest of the plot details. (Despite my name, I was not involved in the movie. It's just a happy coincidence.) Spiffy sperry (talk) 22:33, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Rotten Tomatoes data are wrong
I guess something changed here because Rotten Tomatoes has only two reviews up for this thing; one rotten, one fresh. The article says that is has an 86% rating; I'm not sure where that came from. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojr1 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

The real Jonathan Sperry
The end credits make the viewer think the story is based on a real person, giving his name, his birth and death years, but the film does not identify the town in which the story takes place. In pseudo-documentary style, it also mentions that some scenes were filmed in the Jonathan Sperry House and that each year the four boys of the film, now as adults, continue to meet at the grave of Jonathan Sperry. I researched the name "Jonathan Sperry" in the Social Security Death Index, but there is no individual listed there matching the name, birth year and death year. It appears the person and the story, though not implausible, are a work of fiction. (The National Lampoon 1978 comedy movie "Animal House" used a similar pseudo-documentary style in the end credits, although it was clearly entirely a work of fiction.) This story may have been inspired by real persons and events, but it wasn't even close enough to fact to warrant a disclaimer that names of places and persons had been changed to protect their privacy. If my findings are valid, it would be proper to indicate in the article that the plot and characters are fiction. Perhaps it could be called a "parable". Jesus of Nazareth used parables to elucidate, but I doubt that his audience mistook the parables as accounts of actual events. — QuicksilverT @ 06:12, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

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