Ohmygosh - I watched this film while puttering about - thank God! SO grateful that I didn't actually just WATCH it. It is one of the worst films ever. Throughout the ghastly thing, I kept thinking, "this is one of the worst films I've ever seen - it's as bad as those Christian films." Well, guess what? It IS one of those Christian films.The acting is terrible. The writing is even worse. I can't say anything about the directing because everything else was so bad, I wouldn't know where the director's hand is in there. Everything felt like middle schoolers had written a story and decided to put a show in over a holiday weekend - so amateurish and clumsy. No character was believable. And the premise at the start? Ridiculous! A mysterious 50-something fellow comes to town and saves everyone from their various troubles. He's a PERFECT man. He could be Jesus. He had been in the Peace Corps and he's literally better than everyone else in that town of greedy, pathetic, hopeless, conniving jerks. Only the bartender and his wife are decent. He falls in love with a ridiculous, empty-headed, selfish, hard- partying alcoholic 20-something girl. Really? A guy with those attributes and as old as he is falls in love with a vapid drunk? C'mon!!The film is a sledgehammer of anti-choice, right-wing rubbish. SO glad I didn't pay for it - and so glad I was organizing my drawers while watching it. If I had sat down and watched without doing anything else, I would be very unhappy over the lost time.Now, if I can get back those 35 neurons that this terrible thing destroyed, I will be happy.

Much more creative than your average Friday night flick! Harmless in its advertisement, Doonby takes the audience for a memorable ride that presents much needed themes of human worth in tones that will not turn off the jaded film goer that has seen one too many preachy films. Artfully weaving individual worth, consequences for good and bad decisions of one's self as well as others, in with a sublet but powerful pro-life message, Peter Mackenzie presents these motifs with an air that penetrates but does not offend the viewer; and an ending that leaves the audience pining to see the film again for a better understanding of what they just witnessed.Excellent production considering this is an indie film not from the usual production houses with limitless funds. Terrific acting! There were moments when I watched the movie that caught me up in the moment so well they are a complement to the film industry. All the leads were well cast and well performed. Heartily recommend this film for everyone, especially the doubtful movie goer- you are in for a real treat!

I recently saw the movie Doonby, and when the film ended, I felt like I had just watched an excellent movie. Doonby is an emotional, heartfelt, entertaining story, that weaves an interesting theme throughout the picture. As a viewer, you can certainly tell that something unknown is going on underneath the story's surface, and this riveting sense keeps you interested and glued to the story. I was pulled into the movie from beginning to end.I give a nod to John Schneider's portrayal of the lead character, Sam Doonby, yet Jenn Gotzon, as the lead female playing Laura Reaper, carried this movie, in my opinion. Jenn's role as Laura Reaper is believable and powerful, and as an actress, Jenn's character by far reaches the deepest and the most difficult ranges to draw from of all of the characters in the movie. I was glad that I sat through this movie that deals with pertinent social issues, and I highly recommend seeing Doonby.

Straight up, this an anti-choice film. And you realize that in the last 10 seconds of the movie. For the other hour and a half you're assaulted with bad acting, and even a guest appearance by the plaintiff in roe v wade. All major women characters were"whores." Whoever wrote the script has serious issues with women. The movie is propaganda and I shouldn't have to pay money to see a commercial.Aside from the heavy abortion stance that this movie slams you with at the end, really the whole thing was badly written with a hero who helps people, the whore who is bad, and the African-American nanny who let's babies get run over by trucks (?!?!). So the movie is bad the whole way through and I was wondering what the point would be at the end and then, wow, it's just a big message to hammer me in the face with.If you want to have your 'pro-life' views affirmed by a low budget basically terrible movie, this might be for you. If you somehow are undecided about the abortion issue, and you want a painfully oversimplified story to make you feel bad about having the hero die in utero, then you might like this movie. Anyone else, stay far far away.