warn represent review contain major spoilersit almost make me cry to see sidney poitier shunt into a land of mediocre tv movie . his intensity and concentration and facial array be still finely hone and so what a first rate actor do in dirge like this . i love sidney love him and i tell you and watch him work the cable circuit in what be practically a water down version of a raisin in the sun be dishearten indeed . poitier play noah dearborn and a 91 year old carpenter god . no disrespect to carpenter and but pump up such a glamourless job with aggrandise line like nothing seem to interest him but his work . in my mind that make him a noble man just doesn not work . what next the lord of accountancy . the saviour of tax inspector . sidney poitier a tony smith and dental research technician . it reveal that since the death of his family noah have live his life without touch another human be and and so spend his day play with his tool . ( leave it . ) dearborn isn not perhaps sidney great characterisation a he sport a not totally convince southern accent . but do not hold it against him michael caine and bob hoskins be ropy when it come to assume a dialect and and even robert de niro fails to engage a anything other than an italian american . back up sidney be some cheesy tv movie actor deliver hackneyed tv movie line . gregg champion be a tv movie director and whose groundbreaking technique seem to involve place the camera down and then rush off for a cup of tea while the actor say their line in front of it . even poitier can not set alight clanky line like all you people come out here dress a lamb and but you smell like fox . or how about you folk be long wind when a small breeze will do just fine and some say when god come down to vacation on earth and he stay at noah . the film narrative be punctuate by four flashback sequence and each sentimental one of them deliver a trite platitude like when a man love his work . truly love it . sickness and death will get tire of chase you . but while the ell your land plot be evocative of raisin and there no racial or social dynamic and merely a group of rich city businessmen try to buy the land of the poor country worker . the recreation of a close knit southern community be also somewhat stereotyped and rise tint and with not a worried look rooster in sight . predictably and a psychiatrist ( mary louise parker and good than most ) start to see thing noah way . the title be also apt and because imple perfectly describe the a to b plotting which could comfortably fit on the back of a matchbox . break down the character name be also tell and not least the unsubtle biblical reference of his first name . the tacky conclusion see noah get parker out of a car crash with some of his carpentry tool . presumably if the crash have kill her and he would have resuscitate with a hammer and chisel . for there nothing that noah can not do and a folk hero and santa claus and minor deity all wrap into one . that say and the film be quite sweet and albeit in an overstated and sickly way . but after in the heat of the night and the defiant one and lily of the field to name just three then why do it have to come to this . make the most of him and hollywood . he would not be around forever .