Journal for Jordan, A

[Opens Dec. 25 in theaters.] Denzel Washington's compelling, factually based, touching, well-acted, heartbreaking, bittersweet, nonlinear, 131-minute film based on Dana Canedy's 2008 memoir Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor and the article From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By in which ambitious, workaholic, lonely "New York Times" senior editor Dana Canedy (Chanté Adams) recounts meeting her charming, artistic fiancé 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan), who is in the middle of a divorce and has been in the Army for eleven years, at the home of her supportive parents (Robert Wisdom and Tamara Tunie) in Ohio in 1998, and when they have a son (Jalon Christian), he started a journal to pass on wisdom, advice, and the importance of family, which ended up becoming more meaningful after he was killed in Iraq in 2006 by a roadside bomb.
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