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this is a review i found on netflix. i am pasting it here. thanks goes out to the author, widestance:

Forget "Proud American," it should have been titled "After-School Special: The Motion Picture!" The first minute or two contain some rather nice sweeping shots of the Grand Canyon, New York City, Mt. Rushmore, DC and the Pacific Coast Highway stirringly set to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. But then after watching some newly naturalized citizens taking their oath of allegience comes, I'm not kidding, Yakov Smirnoff doing his "only in America" and "what a country" routines from his Branson theatre. Same lousy jokes he was doing on Hollywood Squares 25 years ago too! Ugh, they're bad. Next in this slapped-together hodgepodge of corn comes a bunch of unrelated would-be heartwarming little stories that comprise the bulk of the film. The stories of Dawn, the American-raised daughter of Vietemese boat people; the nice jewish couple who has their menorah smashed during Hanukkah; and Curtis the hardworking little inner city boy who, despite the odds, grows up to become a doctor are all so cornball they'd deservedly get laughed out of a junior high social studies class, which is where this collection of bad American dream platitudes belongs. How it ever got a theatrical release is beyond me, though it lists funding from Coke, Wal-Mart, American Airlines and MasterCard at the beginning and stops for ridiculous little commercials throughout the movie (the actors playing the Coca Cola inventors in 1886 do the worst southern accents I've ever heard). Though writer-director Fred Ashman claims he made the movie for the "enormous untapped market of people who love this country - people who are turned off by the petty politics and the negativity" there wasn't anybody else in the theatre when I saw it on it's opening weekend. Further proof that good intentions don't necessarly translate to good movies. Big waste of time.