Regarding Henry DVD Review
Actor(s):
Annette Bening,
Harrison Ford,
Julie Follansbhee,
Michael Haley,
Stanley Swerdlow
Directors(s):
Mike Nichols
Get shot in the head and become a better person. This 1991 Mike Nichols (
Wolf) film stars Harrison Ford as a big-shot cold-hearted lawyer who gets a bullet in his brain during a holdup. The film de-emphasizes the traumas of recovery to focus on the title character's personality change after the fact. The canny Ford gets to work from his full, familiar palette of arrogance to boyishness, and even builds Henry from top to bottom after the wounded fellow awakens with no memory. But this is a slow and unremarkable film from Nichols, its sentimentality eclipsing all else, most of all profound insight.
--Tom Keogh
