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Summary: Wonderful
Review: If you don't need car chases and explosions, you'll love Jimmy Stewart's finest performance in a sweet, funny, thoughtful movie.
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Summary: a great classic and funny film!
Review: This film is a treat for thre entire family and is so funny and entertaining. Jimmy Stewart gives a wonderful peromance in this film, "Harvey," about a guy and his over 6 foot tall rabbit friend.
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Summary: HARVEY: An Enchanting and a warm-fuzzy classic.
Review: "Harvey" is one of THE best classics made. Great and superb
comic acting from Josephine Hull. She is wonderful. No wonder she got the Academy Award. Jimmy Stewart is marvelous. What would have been great was at the end, when Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd walks away from the sanitarium gats and down the road on the hill, they could have shown like a ghostly image of a rabbit to show the audience that the rabbit was there all the time. I was waiting for that to happen when I first saw it, but never did and I thought "Gee, that's disappointing." That didn't stop me from watching it countless times. I love it, and it's a great
way to relax from a hard day.
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Summary: Classic james Stewart Comedy!
Review: Each time I watch this wonderful movie about the shades of gray we use to cement together the brickwork of our lives, I think of James Stewart's comment in the trailer at the beginning of the movie as he describes doing the original play on the road, when invariably some kid in the audience would loudly ask, "Where's the rabbit"? Where is he indeed! I wanna see the damned rabbit, too! Yet this thought-provoking parable about what is real and what isn't and the shades of each we use to try to live our lives as best we can, remains one of the all-time favorites of people who love to watch movies. James Stewart portrays Elwin P. Dowd as a more than slightly-tipsy drinker who happens to enjoy the company of his constant company Harvey, a six-foot- something invisible (and imaginary?) rabbit. Now all of the terrific character actors in the film are of one opinion or another about the rabbit, but all agree that Dowd is an altogether pleasant man who everyone enjoys having around. Yet his incessant and insistent ramblings about Harvey make him an embarrassment, and some of them are honestly concerned about him. So what to do about Elwin? And what do you think about the rabbit? As for me, I prefer to think the rabbit is real, but chooses to be invisible. More interesting that way. And you have to admit the porch swing does rock without anyone else on it in the last scene, after all. I've tried the rabbit routine a few times when in a particularly whimsical mood, and it always brings smiles and conversation. So what's wrong with having a big albeit invisible rabbit as a drinking chum? A guy could do a lot worse. See the movie; it is a bona-fide classic. I have to give this one two thumbs WAY UP! Enjoy!
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Summary: ".. and how are you today Mr. Willson?"
Review: Mr. Elwood P. Dowd, a man of independent means and with a thrust for life, lives with his dependent sister (Veta Louise Simmons) and niece. He also has a unique friend (Harvey) and drinking partner. His friend seems to be the center of controversy; you see (or don't' see) he is a pooka. This of course disrupts Veta's social life and so it is time for Elwood to go to Chumley Rest (a place where friendly people offer to bathe you). Will Veta see the error of her ways in time? Will Cecil Kellway (Dr. Willie Chumley) get cold beer and Akron? What is to become of Harvey?
They had to make the rabbit a bit taller to accommodate Jimmy Stewart's height so he could still look up.
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Summary: Still a Delight After 50 Years
Review: Jimmy Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd remains one of the most likeable characters. Why shouldn't he be? He's a "Hello Mr. Wilson" kind of fellow who attracted a Pooka as a friend. "Harvey," that innocuous, but rascal rabbit who is Elwood's best friend is a complex figment of Elwood's dreams and lack of clear sobriety. Or is Harvey an invisible rabbit, as genuine as you and I, except large and furry, um... and unseen? You'll need to choose. In one of the most family friendly, yet delightful movies (with a taste of romance), Stewart is a nice guy. Very friendly and about town, he is in some ways the same core person in "Its A Wonderful Life." In one scene, when his pleasantness is pointed out, he responds something to the affect, "There are two kinds of people in this world: Smart people and pleasant people. For years, I was smart. I prefer pleasant." The question of insanity comes up quickly, and knowing who is sane and insane is not so simple (I can hear Homer Simpson's famous line in the background). Likewise, what counts as sight is a little fuzzy too. Stewart's intro is better than the usual throw-away intro. He brings insight as to how he played his role, why he looks up though he is the same height as the rabbit, and so forth. I fully recommend "Harvey." It is a movie safe enough to watch with your church group, funny enough to watch with your parents and romantic enough to watch on a date. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: AMUSING AND HEARTWARMING CLASSIC!!!
Review: ...Adapted from a Pullitzer prize winning play, James Stewart stars in this classic black and white 1950 movie as the good natured gentleman Elwood P. Dowd, friend to everybody and in particular his constant companion "Harvey", a 6' 7" rabbit that nobody else can see. Unfortunately for Elwood's sister Veta Louise (in an Oscar winning performance) life becomes more complicated when her mission to find her daughter a husband are repeatedly scuppered time and again by Elwood and his obsession with his best friend. This inevitably leads to Veta Louise deciding to have her good natured brother committed to a mental hospital leading to all sorts of mix-ups, including being his sister being committed instead, leaving Elwood to sort everything out with his kindly and unwaveringly pleasant approach to life. This is a beautifully written and perfectly acted movie that should appeal to anyone with a heart and an ounce of sentiment...They really don't make movies like this anymore and so this is a perfect addition to a movie lovers film library. Other favourites that appeal to my sentimental side and this is one tp put alongside Arsenic and Old Lace, It's A Wonderful Life (and virtually every other Frank Capra movie) and I'd also add Field Of Dreams to the list of all-time greatest heart-warming movies.
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Summary: Aren't We All A Little Crazy?
Review: Jimmy Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a very ordinary man except for the fact he sees and talks to a large white rabbit (a pooka, actually). His overwrought sister Veta can't take it anymore, since he is ruining the chances of her daughter Myrtle Mae finding a suitable husband. She wants to get him committed to the Chumley Sanitarium. And that's when things begin to get very complicated for all concerned. As comedies go, Harvey isn't one of those riotous, laugh out loud howlers. It does have some laugh out loud moments, mostly supplied by the inimitable Josephine Hull as poor Veta. She's extremely funny, with her quavering, fluttery voice, and expressive eyes. The comedy is more gentle and rooted in human nature. Stewart hits all the right notes as Elwood, a terminally calm and happy man who seems much more at peace with himself and the world than the apparently sane people around him. He and the film leave you questioning what the harm is in a man who sees a big white rabbit, but loves life and making friends and who really disturbs no one. After all, don't we all have our own oddities and quirks - myself excepted, of course ;) .
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Summary: Jimmy's Seeing Things
Review: James Stewart gives yet another sterling performance as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey. Elwood is a bit of a drinker and his companion is a six foot tall rabbit named Harvey that only he seems to be able to see. Of course everyone around him thinks he's crazy and blames the booze, especially his sister played by Josephine Hull. The script is a little flimsy, but Mr. Stewart is a genuine master and he digs deep into what could have been a toss off role and exposes the heart and soul of Elwood. Ms. Hull is excellent and she took home the 1950 Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
Rating:
Summary: more than five stars
Review: This is a feel good movie from long ago that you can watch with the kids. It deserves more than five stars.
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