Faith&Friends
FAITH BUILDERS
A New Hope Movie teaches that there is a (super) hero in all of us.
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by Diane Stark
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lora & Ulysses, streaming now on Disney+, is a children’s movie based on Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Award-winning novel by the same name. “Born Anew” Flora Buckman (Matilda Lawler) is only 10 years old, but she already describes herself as a cynic. An avid reader, one of Flora’s favourite books is called Terrible Things Can Hap-
pen to You. And something terrible has happened to her. Her mom, a romance novelist (Alyson Hannigan, How I Met Your Mother), and her dad, a struggling comic-book writer turned hardware-store manager (Ben Schwartz), have recently separated. Flora lives with her mom, but they have a strained relationship, and she wishes she lived with her dad. One day, a quirky neighbour is vacuuming her lawn and accidentally
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