The Dad With a Plan

I just watched the 2022 Disney live action remake of Pinocchio with Tom Hanks. Pinocchio has never been my favorite Disney film. However, one of my most cherished childhood memories is my father taking me to see it when I was eight years old in 1984. I remember it very clearly. We had this lovely old movie house, The Cameo, and on a grey snowy winter day my dad took me there to see the original Disney animated classic. In full disclosure, which may have been the only time I saw the film in its entirety. Again, it just never clicked with me that much. Plus, I grew up in an era when we did not own movies. You saw it once in the theater, and that was it. Yet, that remained and still is an important childhood core memory. For one thing, movies were also one thing that connected me and my dad. But I could also see how much my dad appreciated this movie. And that made me happy. Here I am, a fully grown adult in my 40’s, and watching Pinocchio again. This time, I am seeing it from the persp...