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Henry Fool (UK) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
137 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Hal Hartley

Written By:
Hal Hartley

Actors:
Thomas Jay Ryan ..... Henry Fool
James Urbaniak ..... Simon Grim
Parker Posey ..... Fay
Maria Porter ..... Mary
James Saito ..... Mr. Deng
Kevin Corrigan ..... Warren
Liam Aiken ..... Ned
Miho Nikaido ..... Gnoc Deng
Gene Ruffini ..... Officer Buñuel
Nicholas Hope ..... Father Hawkes
Diana Ruppe ..... Amy
Veanne Cox ..... Laura
Jan Leslie Harding ..... Vicky
Chaylee Worrall ..... Pearl (age 7)
Christy Carlson Romano ..... Pearl (age 14) (as Christy Romano)

Synopsis:

Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the 'great American poem'. As Simon begins his controversial ascent to the dizzying heights of Nobel Prize winning poet, Henry sinks to a life of drinking in low-life bars. The two friends fall out and lose touch until Henry's criminal past catches up with him and he needs Simon's help to flee the country.

Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) is a garbageman, and his life is about as unpleasant and uneventful as you'd expect given his profession; he doesn't much care for his work, he's treated with violence or contempt by most of the people in his neighborhood, and he shares a house with Mary (Maria Porter), his cranky, pill-head mother, and Fay (Parker Posey), his morally suggestible sister. One day, Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan) appears; he claims to be a writer in the midst of a major project, entitled 'Confessions,' and needs a place to stay. Henry ends up moving in with Simon and his family, where he wastes no time in bedding both Mary and Fay, and encourages Simon to write in a journal. Simon begins to write in long torrents of words that surprisingly fall together into iambic pentameter; Henry tells Simon that what he's writing is poetry, and he's truly gifted. Simon seems dubious at first, but when several of Simon's pieces are posted on the Internet, he develops a huge and rabid following and is acclaimed as one of the great authors of our time. Henry, however, isn't able to get anywhere with his own book or his own life; as Simon's star slowly rises, Henry's orbit slowly sinks past the horizon.

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