He Took My Licking [VHS]

Reader Reviews
This beautiful story was told in LDS General Conference by Gordon B Hinckley, and has since been made into a children's picture storybook too. The production values of the storybook are better than this video, but both fail to capture the profound emotion and principles embodied in the story. The title character in the story, the schoolteacher, is played well by Sam Payne, a very talented folk singer/songwriter, and the boy who plays Jimmy is also pretty good (until what should be the emotional climax, which falls flat). The other children are painfully amateurish, as is much of the writing/directing/cinematography. Having said that, the story is so good that the video is worth having as a modern way to visually depict it.