Movies, Morality, and Men: Gifts From Hollywood

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By Jeff Minick

4/27/2021Updated: 4/29/2021

Grab a bowl of popcorn and your favorite beverage, hit the sofa, dim the lights, and flick on the television screen.

We’re off to the movies. Specifically, movies about men.

Jeff Minick

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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.

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