What makes it different from others?

Just perfect...

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Amazing story of a one of a kind. Testimony to the the concept:that art is a need. An artist do what one does-not for any motive but for the pure need to do (the art). Martha's story is an amazing testimony to the human spirit and will. A New Yorker, ballet dancer, artist-at the latter part of her life sets out for a new horizon. Setting herself out in the desolate crossroads of a death valley isolation-and creating a variety of artistic endeavors that knows no audience at the outset. Just a need to do. This movie is a great reward. A story to be told-and appreciated by the like. To drop a name-Ray Bradbury's presence provide the necessary legitimacy to the film.

I lasted almost ninety minutes through this dreadful movie waiting for some revelation about dance or spirit or inspiration or something and gave up! What possessed the filmmakers to do this? This is an old woman of limited talent who is obsessed with herself and nothing else. To fill in a story without a point we get some stuff about the other folks in her thrall, her aid to burros, and, of course, her ten cats! Do not see this film. And have nothing more to do with anybody who loved it - they do not have a clue. There are fascinating people in this world with wonderful stories to tell and insights to share - but Marta Becket is not one of them. The people I took to this movie say they have forgiven me - but that they will never, ever stop kidding me about it.

A quality film that any individual with a hunger for the arts would want to include in their viewing landscape.Amargosa would not exist - were it not for One who gently followed her dream.A unique 'life-lesson' for both young and old.

I was fortunate enough to see this at the International Film Festival at L.A. in 2000. It so happened that Marta and Tom were in the audience two seats ahead of me. It was fun to watch their reactions to the audience and the film as the film played.I've been fascinated with Death Valley every since I first visited it. The story of Marta Becket and The Amargosa Opera House which she created is equally fascinating. It is the story of Marta dealing with her personal demons, her disapproving father, her life as a up and coming New York City artist, her escape, the way she found Amargosa and what she has done with it. The film does a good job showing the complete isolation and desolation of the land for miles and miles around Death Valley Junction. How did a sophisticate from NYC end up there? It is the middle of nowhere, yet there the Amargosa Opera House flourishes thanks to this amazing woman.You owe it to yourself to see this film.