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Henry Fool
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 7.1 |
Studio : | The Shooting Gallery, True Fiction Pictures, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Thomas Jay Ryan James Urbaniak Parker Posey James Saito Kevin Corrigan |
Genre : | Drama Comedy |
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The most underrated movie I've seen...This week, I wanted to watch the best of the best movies that I haven't seen, and out of all the movies like "Se7en", "The Usual Suspects" and "The Green Mile", that are considered the best of the best, the only one worth the 10, is this little known indie film. There's just something special about this movie I cant describe. The acting is top notch, as well as writing, and the ending is ingenious. But, I do think some people will dislike this movie. Some, like me, will love it, some will find it bad but there is no way to give this movie less than 4/10.
I wasn't going to review this one, because I only watched/own these films because I'm an avid Goldblum fan. Yeah, I know he's not in Henry Fool, but he IS in Fay Grim, and because Fay Grim makes no sense WHATsoever without having first watched Henry Fool, I have them both.Having started out that way, Henry Fool was, for me, something to "get through" in order to get to the "good stuff" with Jeff.Boy, was I surprised. Henry Fool is a brilliant piece of work. I was shocked, frankly. Now, I can't stop telling my friends about it. This is thoughtful, even if it is a bit dialog-heavy. It is fun, even as it takes itself seriously. It appears superficially fun and quirky, even as it surreptitiously broadens its depth. It entertains, even as it teaches us to shoot for the stars.Henry appears to follow his own advice - he appears to shoot for the stars, when all the while, he seems to be buying into his own con...or does he? This film is awesomely quirky, but there is substance beneath the idiosyncratic screenplay. This has become one of my new favorites. However, you can't fully appreciate the depth of the deceit without following this one up with a good strong dose of Fay Grim. Check it out, or lose out on a GREAT ending to this film.I would recommend this for just about anyone who likes intrigues, livid dramas, and/or Parker Posey. I have to say this is one of her best performances. She's a NUT in this! It rates an 8.4/10 from...the Fiend :.
Hartley is a major talent, a unique, competent voice in a bramble of sameness. The last project I saw was "No Such Thing," which is one of those that if you don't actively avoid it, it hits you deep in your soul and changes you.Like most Hartley projects, it was more abstract and pure than usual. All theatrical projects are abstract, in fact they need to be abstract to seem real. But these projects, and especially "Thing" were abstract in unusual ways that were carefully sculpted as artistic statements with power.It is a sophisticated method for what I call "folding," where the nature of the presentation is explicit in the presentation, and carries much of the message, the art. But this is different. It is celebrated because it is more "normal," and it has performances that seem close to what we normally see. In this, he's found a sort of sweet spot between the highly formal approach of his other projects and the acceptably strange stuff we get from, say Wes Anderson, or in "Napolian Dynamite" or "Igby Goes Down."It still has lots of talk, and talk about talk and writing and media, Hartley topics.But all in all, I was disappointed. I wouldn't have been so if it were not a Hartley project. But I know he can cut deeply with his deviations. This seems too safe.The odd thing is that the device in the story is a poem that is so weird and powerful it changes lives, falls magically on lives. It is rejected by the folks looking for normal stuff but carries the poet to fame just based on its effectiveness. This is Hartley's usual tack, but this film is too conventional to cut deeply.Yes, it has superb performances. Even a one minute scene with a girl in a library (Rachel Miner) who gets an anonymous, personal poem, is so deftly done, that one scene inspires a whole imagined future.But because there is better, more unique poetry from this man, I'll direct you elsewhere in his work.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
'Henry Fool' is a great film, and is also one of my favorites. I think that people should see it because it's great. I'll just give you people out there who haven't seen this movie a little written preview:First off we have this guy named Simon's side of the movie. He is a nerdy garbage man living with his sister and depressed mother. According to his mother and sister, he has never had a friend until one day out of the blue, a man named Henry Fool comes along. He inspires Simon to write, and he does. He writes a bunch of pornography that everyone says is sick and twisted. He tries to get his poem published, but sadly receives a bunch of letters from the publishers saying that they hate his poem. Poor Simon. Even though the publishers hate it, there are two people who like it. Henry Fool, and this one high school girl who asks him for his permission for his poem being in her high school paper. Henry, trying to be a good friend, asks Simon's sister Fay to type up a portion of Simon's poem on the internet. It's here where people find it, and it starts appearing on the news. After, he settles a deal with a publisher named Angus James. He then becomes a famous poet.Second, we have Henry Fool's side of the movie. He has a parole officer because he's been bad. He is known as a criminal, but he's not that dangerous. Well anyway, he supports Simon on his poetry while writing his own confession. Later, his criminal past does catch up to him after he kills someone and needs a plan to get out of the country.You should really see this movie. I've seen it ten times and I'm still not tired of it.