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Summary: Grrrrrrrr... no DVD!
Review: I've enjoyed this movie since the first time I saw it a few years ago. (It just started on Cinemax a few minutes ago, which prompted me to check on DVD availability again, and to write a review.)It's a fantastic story about a lawyer (Ford) who is an influential member of his firm and who, in the act of trying to buy some cigarettes one evening, gets shot and forced to the brink of death. Interestingly, it's not the bullet to the head that does the most damage, but the one to the shoulder that caused massive blood loss and oxygen depravation to his brain. After recovering and going through rehabilitation (re-learning everything as if he were a 2 year old) he seems to be an entirely different person; no longer is he obsessed with work and so concerned with impressing his high-power friends. Now he begins to recognize and really love the wife and daughter that he has been ignoring for so long. The movie is a great departure from Ford's long-time role as the tough guy action hero. Which brings me to my complaint: why hasn't the studio released this on DVD yet?! They've spent plenty of money putting ... out on disc, but not this... stupid.
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Summary: Which Harrison Ford do you like?
Review: If you're a Harrison Ford fan, you MUST buy this film. He plays two very different characters: the high-priced, low-moraled lawyer who has a great career and no life; and the post-gunshot-wound-to-the-head schmoe who struggles to build a life, and even a sense-of-self. Both are compelling portraits. The film works for any particular viewer, I think, to the extent that we are able to see parts of either of these characters in us. And that includes (almost) all of us. The film is also a must-own for all fans of medical rehabilitative services; you've gotta love these people! So, although its not GREAT art or cinema, it is a very well done and compelling story.
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Summary: Getting back to basics and finding each other.........
Review: It is a wonderful story about a couple who have let life's distractions like work, money, ambition drive a wedge between them. When a stray bullet temporarily takes Henry's memory, he sees life as if for the first time and realizes he "doesn't like the way he was". A great "chick" movie to some, but my husband enjoys it as well.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Let's not reject a movie because its theme can be reduced to mere simplicity. This is truly a touching story that makes me cry each time I see it. I love it.
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Summary: A Heartwarmer
Review: No, this is not a Harrison Ford action-film where he plays the hero. This is a moving, heart-warming film about a fellow who used to be a not-so great guy. His life is changed, however, by a physical trauma and subsequent memory loss. It is much more subtle than you expect from Ford, if you're an action-hero film goer. Harrison, almost child-like now, is appalled in many ways to find out the nature of his character in his former life, and this is a life-lesson for those who are paying attention. You can learn what is important about life without getting a "shot to the head". I think Nichols was very clever in using this cliche physically to demonstrate an important aspect of the human experience.
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Summary: You'll never look at Ritz crackers the same
Review: OPENING SCENE: Henry the Proud knowingly, cold-bloodedly and methodically demolishes an innocent welfare family before a jury... CLOSING SCENE: Henry the Humble graciously and sincerely assists this family... Really enjoyable, like 'Rainman' there is humor and alot of innocence. Innocence comes across better when its vehicle is an adult rather than a child; it's rarer and more noticeable. My favorite character is the physical therapist, Bradley, who teaches Henry to walk, talk, and even think again following his trauma. On their strolls around the sanitarium, Bradley is always ogling, in a very politically-incorrect sort of way, the cute young nurses who go walking, running or jogging by, telling the still-mute and barely-able-to-walk Henry "I gotta get me some o' that!" It's a little bit of 'My Fair Lady' in reverse as, after several weeks of this operant conditioning, when a cute nurse runs past the two of them, Henry very innocently mumbles to Bradley "Yeah, you gotta get you some o' that" . But make no mistake, Bradley DOES have a heart of gold, enhancing this film with his infectious joie-de-vivre... So... RH makes a good point that we spend our lives misplacing our affections... The only people who care about Henry before his accident are his wife and daughter, more or less. Naturally, he spends his time with everyone else but them. Similarly, the true-blue business associates are sadly yet predictably - with some exceptions here - deplorable asses, after the shooting, when it becomes apparent that Henry's situational ethics and razor-sharp mind are no longer on tap. Ford does a very touching, lovable and convincing job here. A very human film which nicely avoids mawkish sentimentality as we watch a legal devil incarnate become an angel. (Oh, and by the way... The loss of memory was caused NOT by the head wound, but by anoxia due to a damaged subclavian artery [chest wound].)
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Summary: It was really good, people!
Review: Regarding Henry is about a man who does not suffer either a stroke or loss of memory from a head wound. His loss of memory is from the lack of oxygen to the brain caused by loss of blood from the chest wound. (Check out that scene more carefully and you'll see) It's a really good movie. Please see this movie. I only had time to see it once while it was out from the library, but I would have seen it more if I could have.
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Summary: Heartwarming Movie!!!
Review: Regarding Henry is really a heartwarming movie to me because in real world my friend has the same story as Henry Turner (Harrison Ford). Regarding Henry is still one of my favorite movies. Does anyone tell me where I can buy the original soundtrack of Regarding Henry composed by Hanz Zimmer? Thanks a lot.
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Summary: Regarding Henry
Review: Regarding Henry was a remarkable film about love, maturity, and change. Harrison Ford reveals another side to his acting ability. While we have seen Ford as the "rough neck" tough guy of the Star Wars movies, Bladerunner, and Witness, he proves that he cannot be type casted. He acts as a bench mark for the way a father should be. The irony here is that he has to get shot in the head and fall into a coma in order to wake up and see what life is truly about. Anyone who has gone through trauma, recovery, or even simple changes in their lives, will relate to this movie. This movie exemplifies the love that one family has for each other. The background music enhances the mood of hope and resiliency that is ever prevelant in the movie. It is truly a movie that is good for the family to watch over and over again.
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Summary: Hard people to like.
Review: The film has its amusing and even touching points, but not very many. The big problem with RH is that neither Ford or Benning are sympathetic characters. Henry is just the kind of self-important, ego-bloated, smug, arrogant, cold-blooded corporate ass that's helped step on working people for real, so it's really hard to feel anything for him, shot or not. He's arrogant even with a gun pointed at him, and the fact that it takes a bullet in his brain to even make him consider acting human is, if you think about it, appalling. And his wife is, in a way, even worse; she accepts his character so she can have all the material things it buys and status is provides. She goes into a panic when she thinks they may have to give anything up. Only their daughter has any heart at all. Maybe a better ending would've been Henry's not making it, Benning going nuts from losing her stuff, and the kid being placed in a foister home with the kind of people her parents should've been from day one. Barely watchable.
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