Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - ★★★★☆

The date is June 3rd (at least, that was the date when I watched this movie). There are fifty days until July 23rd, which is Woody Harrelson's birthday and the date I have chosen for this prestigious film festival to come to an end. I'm no mathematician, but I've done the calculations, and I believe that means I have to watch approximately one movie every two days until July 23rd in order to reach this goal. So, that's what I'm doing. Like the great Gregg Turkington did in his quest to watch #500moviesin500days, I'm even going to take it at a faster pace than that to start, so if something comes up I'll be ahead and able to finish nonetheless. I'm not saying it will be easy—but we don't do things because they are easy. We do them because they are hard.

And finding a way to watch Free Jimmy, a 2008 English dub of the 2006 Norwegian CGI-animated stoner circus comedy certainly will be hard. But that's a problem for another day.

Today's problem is determining what exactly I should write about Welcome to Sarajevo, a movie I have no jokes to make about. It was nice, and sad, and good, and Woody didn't wear any hats in it. That'll have to be enough.

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