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Jun 28, 2011 · 98 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2011. Roger Ebert. June 28, 2011. 3 min read. "Larry Crowne" has Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and a good premise and a colorful supporting cast, but what it doesn't have is a reason for existing. The screenplay carries blandness to a point beyond tedium. At some point the sinking realization sets in that Larry Crowne was ...
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Larry Crowne is a 2011 American romantic comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. The film was produced and directed by Hanks, who co-wrote its screenplay with Nia Vardalos. The story was inspired by Hanks' time studying at Chabot College. [3] The film tells the story of Larry Crowne, a middle-aged man who unexpectedly loses his job ...
LARRY CROWNE actually starts out fresh and funny, deceptively drawing the audience into the subtle quirkiness of the story and its main character. I actually found myself rooting for Larry Crowne, a good guy getting screwed by the world, as so many good people out in the world today know so well.
Jul 2, 2011 · Larry Crowne, a love-story between an ex-Navy serviceman and his lethargic professor that’s co-written (alongside Nia Vardalos), directed, and headlined by Tom Hanks, is a one-act picture — it’s all cutesy build-up. Because, it seems, in the suburbia where the eponymous protagonist resides, there are no problems; it’s a place where the retail business is fun, motorcycle gangs coincide ...
- Mariusz Zubrowski
- PG-13
- Tom Hanks
Larry Crowne is the kind of movie that film critics hate and audiences tend to love, an easygoing and genial comedy with a tremendous amount of heart, a winning cast, a good amount of laughs and stars we know and love doing what we love them doing. In this case, the stars are Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Larry Crowne: Directed by Tom Hanks. With Tom Hanks, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park. After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
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The pitch here, on the surface is: The titular Larry Crowne (Hanks), a confused but good-hearted Boomer, deals with Great Recession layoffs. But packaged as a breezy, genial Tom Hanks comedy. Plenty of the movie’s problems are obvious from the logline: The clash of low key charm with the real danger of poverty.
