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It is, of course, Oscars Weekend.

Let's continue to get you caught up.

It's movie number six,

Hamnet. On our list, we hope you took a listen to the five movies we did yesterday. We posted

those on Saturday to get you caught up, and we have five more for you today. And yes, the first one

we're doing today, which is number six overall that we're doing Ro Roads, is Hamnet. Yes. And this one has

eight nominations this evening for best picture, best director, best actress, best casting,

best screenplay, best costume design, best production design, and best original score. This movie

was so powerful. It was so emotional. This is one of the two on the

list that made me cry, not just a few tears, but actually boo-hoo cry. And a lot of that

boo-hooing and, yes, it has to do with themes, but it has to do with some of these performances.

We'll tell you the cast here, Jesse Buckley. You've been hearing a lot about her.

Of course, and her performance in this movie, she, of course, is nominated for lead actress, Paul Meskell and then Emily Watson, directed by Chloe Zhao, already an Oscar winner.

And this one did pretty well at the

box office, 96 million people did show up to see it. Now, I had seen some of the previews, and it didn't look like my cup of tea, and I wasn't exactly sure what it was about. Somebody had to tell me what it was about. Maybe people know now. Yes. So, and I actually did a little research on this because I needed to know how much of

it was true. But the synopsis is this. After losing their son Hamnet to the plague, Agnes and

William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th century England, a heater, I sorry, a healer. Agnes must

find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

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