“Larry Crown” review
Larry Crown (Tom Hanks) - not the young but promising seller, satisfied with his work in a supermarket. However, the image of his life changes after he falls under the roller ruthless downsizing. The reason for his dismissal is his lack of higher education, as after school, he immediately went into the navy, where stayed for long twenty years. After several unsuccessful attempts to find a job again (the mortgage has not been canceled), he nevertheless decided to catch up, because of what and to easy back to business - studying in college.
I must say that it was not Tom Hanks's debut as a director. In addition to staging several separate series of variegated serials at his credit is already a full-length work "What are you doing!". But, alas, Hanks is not able to surpass himself: a new picture appeared on the order of magnitude weaker creation in 1996.
"Larry's Crown" though positioned itself as a romantic comedy. But, this is certainly a romantic film, with rather poor comedy element. Writers clearly wanted to show imagination in regard to humor, which turned out too soft and unobtrusive: rare unconcealed correspondence on lectures by SMS (with its consequences), a pair of characters with fun speech courses and "dance" in front of the door of his teacher - it does not rate a full-fledged comedy. All this underscores the excessive "good-naturedly" of the movie.
As for the peculiar "sending" of the film, which consists in the premise that higher education - this is very useful and necessary for all (by the way, Hanks does not share this opinion), it lost another half-way to the final. In semantic terms the film failed, and all because this is the thesis throughout the tape and so nothing is not confirmed. And whether it's an original plot device, either plot flaw, but "Happy End" has turned out rather ambiguous, as if this ending left-over.
Fortunately, the strength of the movie began its cast, because it is only on it and holds on. And I mean not the number of celebrities on the half-hour film (which there are only two), and the quality of actors’ play. Almost all of them came to be extremely charismatic, never felt busting, no replays. Most of the characters have their own, clearly pronounced, from a black neighbor-huckster with a truly Jewish stranglehold pompous and conceited to the economics professor with a very peculiar sense of humor and tact. Here, I can’t stay more detail on the two central characters: Larry Crown and Taynot Mercedes, one of his professors, played by Julia Roberts.
In general, "Larry Crown" - nothing outstanding, too "good" and sometimes boring movie, which only pulled its well-chosen cast and qualitatively chosen characters. If you want to look at the agonies and the "catastrophe of middle age" of an ordinary American - it is worth to watch this movie.