Adams and Jordan have a warm, engaging connection on screen, and there is a surprising but welcome touch of humor as their romance develops. But Washington wisely keeps the actors at the center of the story. Perhaps because of the timeline shifts, director Denzel Washington avoids fussy cinematic flourishes, though in one scene, as they talk on the phone, both lying down, we see their faces sideways, an odd distraction. (AP) Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday on Friday by making a 10 million donation to Make-A-Wish. Based on Dana Canedy’s memoir ‘A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor,’ the film revolves around Charles. Jordan, Chant Adams, Jalon Christian, Robert Wisdom, and Johnny M. ‘A Journal for Jordan’ is an inspirational drama movie starring Michael B. She tells him he has to sleep on the couch and he does. Image Credit: David Lee/Sony Pictures Entertainment. But after she goes back to New York, they start having long phone calls. She is reluctant to get involved with him. Jordan stars in the movie as 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a war hero who left behind a journal full of advice for his son. The day after they meet, he shows up on the dot of o-nine-hundred as promised but she has overslept. The Real Story Behind ‘A Journal for Jordan’. As the daughter of a career military man, she has seen Army wives sacrifice their careers so they can follow their husbands from one assignment to another. He is a quiet man, divorced with a daughter, who gets his news from television and has never been to Manhattan. She is a high-strung, highly verbal woman who writes for a newspaper in New York City. She is immediately drawn to him and makes up a story about needing a ride to spend some time with him. Inspired by his example, Dana was determined to preserve his memory for their son. Charles Monroe King keeps a journal for his newborn son while stationed overseas. Jordan), in the living room of the house she grew up in, where he is hanging a picture he created as a gift for her father. Then we go back in time to her first meeting with Charles ( Michael B. She is still breast-feeding and it is past time to pump. We first see Dana ( Chanté Adams) at work, fiercely independent, angry at an editor who wants to add another reporter to her story and then annoyed when the colleague who is trying to be assigned to her story points out that her breast milk has leaked through to her blouse. Each chapter begins as a letter: “Dear Jordan.” After King’s death, Canedy wrote a best-seller incorporating excerpts from the journal, to tell Jordan the story of his father and of their time together.
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