Review of A Promise to Keep

It is a tremendous challenge to find a way for all these people to live together and get their needs met. In the movie, Jean succeeds in this challenge by confronting her husband when she sees him bullying people, deciding to quit her job in theater, asking the children how they are doing, sharing their emotions about the challenges and trying to understand them and give them the care that they need with ample space for them to run about and have fun putting on a play of their own, celebrating each other with festive parties. She also fends off uncaring actions from people outside the group. She succeeds to warm the hearts of the people in the group and the person who has offered to care for the baby yet has limited effect on those outside of the group.