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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
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1.0 out of 5 stars
bad blasphemy and swearing throughout-not amazon quality,
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This review is from: Regarding Henry (DVD)
This video should've been a good basic story, but with so much blasphemy taking the Lord's name in vain, and numerous numerous swearing throughout the whole dvd it was disgusting!!!!! there should've been warning on the order screen about to beware about swearing. and when i opened it and started to play it said parental guidance i believe, which is too late after opening and anyway isn't enough warning it's worse than parental guidance-definitely no child nor adult should watch such a movie.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
AT LEAST THE FILM'S HEART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE..,
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A hotshot, hyper-workaholic lawyer finds himself in the middle of an accidental shootout, loses his memory, and lo and behold, his world goes topsy turvy. Quite predictably, as is the case with pretty much every scene in this feel-good Oscar bait, the man turns over a new leaf, becomes a good father, a conscientious husband and a decent human being. Yawn. The movie's slowly unfurling narrative and its high predictability levels could have made it a skippable fare, but Ford's rendition of amnesia is moving, and Annette Bening's performance is very impressive. An occasional saving grace is also the music, if you have an ear for that kind of stuff. Recommended rental.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A guilty pleasure,
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This atypical Harrison Ford-Annette Bening outing is one of those guilty pleasures that critics who deride it won't fess up to its feel-good result. We see Ford first as an ethic-skirting attorney whose sense of justice apparently doesn't extend beyond how the letter of the law can be manipulated to "win" at the cost of "human" justice. Of course, the film's premise that a gunshot wound to the head, which is what happens to Ford's character of Henry Turner, can create a neurological about-face in character is ridiculous. But we don't care. It's plain fun and reassuring to see Henry go from an amoral, apparently unfeeling big shot to a family man seeking to fit into his new world. Ford carries this film all the way and proves he can unleash an emotional performance, something most of his film characters aren't required to do. The film's closing scene, with Ford being called up to the teacher's desk, is a satisfying and fitting end. As for Benning, she's thoroughly engaging as the wife who gets a treat of having her life completely uprooted, for the better!
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