Henry Fool [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics ; True Fiction Pictures and The Shooting Gallery ; produced and directed by Hal Hartley.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 41101 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentSeries: Collector's choice (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm))Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2012.Description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Cinematography, Mike Spiller ; editor, Steve Hamilton ; music, Hal Hartley.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Henry Fo | Available | 33111008301844 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 developes 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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Title from container.
Videodisc release of a 1998 motion picture.
Cinematography, Mike Spiller ; editor, Steve Hamilton ; music, Hal Hartley.
Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey.
Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality violence and language.
DVD.