After reading all the bad reviews about "Larry Crowne", the new Tom Hanks movie, I was beginning to think I was going to be disappointed, and I was! WITH THE REVIEWERS! Now I know why they gave it bad reviews. They haven't lived enough REAL life to understand the story.
This is a PG40 movie. You need experiences to get it. Anyone can do "Transformers". Who knows if it is right or wrong! It's made up!. We all know good car chases from bad ones; good sex scenes; funny slapstick fart jokes; and Good looking people. We are experts.
But when it comes to middle aged people having to start life again after loosing their jobs. When it comes to Older people trying to navigate a young person's world. When it comes to facing a strange new future, it is by necessity an acquired taste. You almost have to be over 40 to get it.
"Larry Crowne" isn't a downer movie even though it is about the above. It is a fun, satisfying, slice of life. In its way it is an up-lifting movie. Yes, it is a "talkie" (More dialogue, less action) and it is "mature" (no sex, drugs, fights, chases, or profanity needed to advance the story).
Since it is PG13 for ratings, Julia Roberts says the F-word once to prove the point and then I don't think any profanity happens again.
This is the story of a great employee who loses his job, because the big company needed to trim. He is someone who has just gone through divorce. He is about to go into foreclosure, etc. etc. BUT he is someone who has control of himself and DOES NOT QUIT.
I know too many people in this boat. I have been close to this for a while. This is a SHOT IN THE ARM!
While it is not a great movie, I give it ***1/2 stars. It is a needed story.
There is not work life, family life, church life, activity life. There is just LIFE.
2011 Movie #32
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