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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:32
Rotten:52
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Full of Hallmark-truisms and pop songs presented with strained significance, this comic foible intends less to convert than to preach to the choir.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $1,749,146
Synopsis: For a man who seems to be living a perfect life--comfortable, engaged, full of opportunity--the discovery in a routine doctor's checkup that all is not well prompts Henry Poole to flee. He finds... [More]
Starring: Luke Wilson, George Lopez, Cheryl Hines, Radha Mitchell
Director: Mark Pellington
One of the few really appealing features that have come along during this summer's movie dog days. Here's a film that actually tries to tell a story and tries to say something substantive instead of just blowing things up or going for the cheapest joke.
Henry Poole never quite approaches the ecstatic.
Some touching moments, but too blandly inspirational.
A spiritual movie with the power to emotionally touch believers, agnostics and atheists -- in that descending order, I suspect. It doesn't say that religious beliefs are real. It simply says that belief is real. And it's a warm-hearted love story.
Top CriticI felt let down by Henry Poole Is Here, which seriously examines questions of religious faith until it skips away at last from being pinned down.
Henry Poole script has no splash.
Its story couldn't be more corny, redemptive, or inspirational.
Pop songs hold the skinny plot together, but a surprisingly caustic Luke Wilson is the medicine that helps the sugar go down.
That the film is ultimately not about whether the guy gets the girl, but about whether the guy will be able to make peace with his past and go on to live the life he deserves, is pretty remarkable in itself.
A film that Christians will embrace, if only from sheer gratitude; here, at last, is a depiction of Christian faith as something other than the domain of cranks and loonies.
The combination of placid technique and Wilson's amiable, offhanded approach to a sketchily drawn character leads to a dissolution of dramatic interest around the midpoint.
This isn't a movie: it's a sermon.
Your faith and your patience won't fare well for sitting through the slow-moving, lackluster Henry Poole is Here.
... examines ... in a sometimes subtle and sidelong poetic way, is examine the ways people recover and heal.
How seriously the filmmakers take the miracle of the stucco wall is up for debate, but the movie's ultimate revelations feel unearned.
[It] works only insofar as you buy into its premise. If you're a skeptic... the real miracle may seem that the film was made at all.
Henry Poole Is Here is the subject of a great concept which is executed well in the acting and writing department but suffers from its awful music choices.
Henry Poole is Here is a gentle, personal film that gets great work from its cast and its unashamedly sweet messages about loneliness, hope, love and faith seem awfully brave these days.
The only big question you may be asking yourself after watching this will probably be "What could [fill in the name of any of the talented people inexplicably involved here] have possibly been thinking when they signed on?"
This director deals in faces and facts, the camera closing in on his actors so they can deliver their big picture pronouncements while crying on cue.
April 27, 2008:
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