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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: 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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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Tom Hanks
- 2011-07-01
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 ...
Jun 28, 2011 · Hanks’ Larry Crowne, an affable middle-level manager of a big-box store, gets fired when new ownership dislikes the fact that he never went to college. But the scene is played for comedy ...
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 is not a bad movie, per se. Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts afford their roles well. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wilmer Valderrama, Pam Grier, Bryan Cranston, George Takei, Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer and the rest of the supporting players back them up admirably and flesh out the world this takes place in.
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Jul 2, 2011 · Crowne is too perfect to be a memorable lead and Hanks’ “do no wrong” shtick becomes increasingly tiresome. At least Cedric the Entertainer lends an idiosyncratic supporting act. It was Hanks, who on the topic of Larry Crowne, once said that “movies are joyful enterprises.”. That’s all fine and dandy, but the actor’s sophomore ...
