Handsome Harry (2009)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Nice effects though.

Crappy film

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

One thing is perfectly clear from watching this diamond of a movie. The people who made this film, every person associated with it, absolutely love the medium of film. They recognize and, indeed, created, the magic that comes when a moving, riveting, very human story is told through brilliant performances of a splendid screenplay. This movie is a gift. Every single scene, every word of dialogue, is perfect. Every actor and every actress, no matter how large or how small his or her part, played his or her role stunningly and flawlessly. Most especially, Jamey Sheridan's performance should have earned him an Academy Award nomination.All I can do is say "thank you" and "congratulations" to Bette Gordon, to Nicholas T. Proferes, to each and every actor and actress and to every individual who helped create this marvelous motion picture. I give a film a "10" when it is a movie that deeply moves me and that stays with me and, most dispositively, when I know I will watch it again and again. HANDSOME HARRY is a sure "10!"

I watched this moving while knowing NOTHING about it - and I am VERY glad I did.There are so many movies out there that I always spend lots of time looking through IMDb to decide whether a movie is worth my time or not. First I check the rating, and then if it is over 5.5 I read the summary and maybe some reviews and sometimes the Message board comments.I'm SO GLAD I didn't know anything about this movie when I watched it. I won't spoil the movie for you by pointing out the main conflict the movie takes a long time to get around to telling us all about.But that is what I liked about this movie. It tells the story about a crime that occurred long ago - and we just start to get hints about what really happened - slowly - as the story plays out - and it is rather fascinating to watch the truth come to dawn on the main character.The story is fairly obviously about Harry who is asked by his friend Thomas to do a favour for him on his deathbed and apologize to their long ago friend for something Thomas did that he thought he was going to go to hell for.Harry was drunk the night this fight happened, and he can't remember much of what happened - but what I think is really cool is that by the end of the movie I'm starting to wonder if his mind made him intentionally forget what happened. Sometimes what we've done is so traumatic we choose to forget what we did.Very painful memories from a very long time ago come back to Harry - and parts of this movie really made me cry.This movie deserves 8 or 9 stars - and it is SO, SO much better to see something like this than some shallow characters in a car chase and fights and shootouts, blah blah blah.I loved this movie. It sneaks up on you. It's message is obviously to be honest with yourself and don't let your life pass you by without telling those you love how you feel.Don't miss this movie - and trust me - and take my word for it - please watch this movie before you read any other reviews.It's better to see this movie before you know what it is about.I did - and I'm glad I did.

of a fine, finely acted little movie. Wonder what kind of person is so petty that s/he makes snotty posts about the spelling of actors' names with attempts at snippy remarks about them 'never becoming stars until they learn to spell the name correctly'?!!? Astoundingly juvenile and asinine--and, I might add, I'm sure that JamEY Sheridan couldn't care less what people think of his 'lack of stardom' OR his name or the spelling of same. He's a fine actor who has toiled in relative obscurity so that cretins who love Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt can get their idiot fix. I suppose that any movie which is not solid car chases, noise, screaming, and bad sex scenes will bore such viewers, but why do they choose to SEE movies like this one? Go see Mission Impossible 12 or the latest idiocy with any current Hollywood 'star'--do us all a favor. LOL

This is a small gem of a film with a memorable ensemble cast practicing the best of low key modern American film acting style, a brilliant script, a great story that unravels like the best of mysteries and a solid, secure director who understands that the film isn't about camera moves and quick cuts. She's not afraid to let the camera sit unmoving, with a cruel, unsympathetic stand for as long as it takes to help the film breathe or to reveal a hidden moment. The film is decidedly NOT a gay film unless, of course, you're an actual homophobe. It's about moral courage, or more properly, the lack of it when a good and decent man succumbs to powerful social and psychological pressure and unwittingly sells out a friend and lover.