PERCY Vs GOLIATH MOVIE REVIEW By Director: Clark Johnson Cast: Christopher Walken, Pathy Aiyar, Monique Alvarez, Adam Beach, Zach Braff, Andrea del Campo Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/9/21 Opens: April 30, 2021 There is a saying: if you are not a socialist when you are 18, you have no heart. If you are a socialist when you are 40, you have no brain. This sound like it could be a motto of the Republican Party, though the GOP would not likely use the first half of the statement but, instead, would be all for capitalism and the big guys. Nonetheless, even Republicans age 40 would feel a tug on their heart-strings watching a hard-working farmer whose land was in his family since the days of the Austrian Empire, now threatened with a loss of everything: the house, the farm, and if he had one, a dog. (Wait: I take that back about Republicans over 40.) In this true case which has been fictionalized for dramatic effects, Christopher Walker takes the lead role as Percy Schmeiser who lives with his encouraging wife Louise (Roberta Maxwell), receives notice in his home in the small town of Bruno, Saskatchewan (filmed in Manitoba) that the giant agri-business Monsanto is suing him. What? A multi-billion dollar company needs to bankrupt the poor guy because it feels offended by his using a patented seed without Monsanto’s license?