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Regarding an imperfection, 30 juin 1999
Auteur : Altaira de Cullman, AL

Roger Ebert wasn't particularily fond of "Regarding Henry," because it is contrived, predictable, and sitcom-ish. And in retrospect, he's right on all accounts. But being a sucker for Harrison Ford, I had to watch Henry and I did like the movie, despite some obvious parts where scenes seem to be...well, missing. We do realize fairly quickly that this is going to be one of those "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" tales: the big, bad, dishonest lawyer who is turned into a new man. Albeit, Ford has a rough road to that reformation, via head injuries, a coma, physical therapy, etc, but we can see it coming a mile in advance. However, "Henry" boasts some touching moments, at least for me. When Henry begins therapy, the therapist asks the once-prominent lawyer to pick out the triangle from among some blocks. Although we don't see Henry's choice, we hear the therapist's encouraging voice: "Close. I'll give you a hint, that's not it." At that moment I couldn't help but wonder how desperate a situation it would be if someone I loved was there, struggling among rectangles and circles. Annette Bening and Ford are both intelligent actors who succeed in their roles, however underwritten they may be. But I wondered how probable certain situations were: Would Henry automatically love his wife because he's supposed to? What about their money problems?? Too many unanswered questions, but still worth a spin.

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Looking from the Other side, 7 octobre 2002
Auteur : perseus71

I am Harrison Ford Fan Especially since his Dr. Jack Ryan Days. I had first seen this movies in 97-98 on TV. At that time I'd probably have given like 3/10 or some such and called it a tear jerker.

But after doing my own 3 months in Hospital and 1 yr. in Rehabilitation, I saw it again on TV. This time it made a huge impact on me although I knew the story. Suddenly I was able to relate to Henry and his problems and frustrations, especially his love to live life Fully.

Not many people will agree with me. But I do wish to tell you that take his advice. You never know about Tomorrow.

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22 utilisateurs sur 36 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
An underappreciated classic, 26 juin 2001

Auteur : Rebochan de Orlando, FL

First, I won't lie to you. I love Harrison Ford. That doesn't mean that I instantly love everything he does (*cough*SABRINA*cough*). That said, this film really shows him off and also deals with a very real topic.

Many people say this film is manipulative, but I don't see it, and I'm usually the first one to roll my eyes at something being overdone. The characters were believable, though Harrison Ford easily outshines the others. Playing someone with a disability is very, very difficult, yet he does it so flawlessly that you really believe that he is brain-damaged.

The plot: Harrison Ford, as Henry Turner, is a cutt-throat lawyer who seems to have lost sight of life. Yea, he's a total jerk, but this first segment is pretty crucial. This movie has a habit of bringing back seemingly unimportant things (for example, Henry's opinion of the table). However, one night after winning a case defending a hospital in a malpractice suit, Henry is off to buy cigarettes and winds up being shot by a panicked robber at the convenience store (The robber is played by John Leguizamo, by the way-probably jealous that Ford is a much better actor). The bullets hit Henry in the head and he is brain-damaged. Now, he must slowly start his life over again, trying to re-learn speech, tying shoes, and remembering who he used to be. Of course, once he learns what an a**hole he used to be and the rotten people he was associated with, he is forced to make some choices about his life.

There are some really great scenes in here. In particular, the entire mystery of why Henry remembers the word "Ritz" actually plays a major role in the film. Annette Bening is good as the wife who is trying to help her husband regain his own life and aquainting herself with the new Henry. It cannot be stressed enough how stellar Ford's performance is. Even if you hate the script, you'll have to admit that he is completely convincing as Henry. This role is a real change for someone well-known for playing Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

This movie is definetly worth a rental, if just for seeing Harrison Ford's Oscar-worthy acting job.

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A scummy lawyer gets shot in the head and becomes the nicest guy in the world.....what a great concept!, 19 mai 2007

Auteur : Amy Adler de Toledo, Ohio

Henry (Harrison Ford) is a terrific but dastardly lawyer. Defending a hospital for negligence against a poverty-stricken diabetic, Henry wins! Its not the first time the little folks have gotten the shaft from Henry. He lives in a posh New York City apartment with his beautiful wife (Annette Bening) and sweet daughter. Yet, things are strained on the home front between the couple and money goes through their hands like water. However, one evening when Henry slips out to buy cigarettes at the shop around the corner, he is caught in a holdup and ends up getting shot. There is considerable brain damage and the doctors can not tell Henry's wife just what his future holds. Thus begins a lengthy rehabilitation for the once-brilliant lawyer that includes learning to speak and write all over again. He makes great strides with the help of a very caring therapist. Most importantly, Henry changes from a person with a very dark demeanor to one who is almost innocent in his view of the world. Still, many secrets remain, mostly from Henry's past life at the law firm. Can Henry and his wife overcome their problems and stay together? This is a very nice movie with plenty of heartwarming scenes. Ford has never been better than he is here, for his role runs the gamut from despicable lawyer to a disabled man struggling to speak and relearn basic skills. Bening is also great as the wife who finds a way to fall in love with her husband all over again. The rest of the cast is also quite nice, especially the gentleman who plays Henry's therapist. Then, too, the sets, costumes, direction and production are very worthy. Still, the movie's themes are the most important aspects of the film, as the film questions the integrity of the law profession and also ponders whether the best part of a person is his heart or his brain. Regarding all of the films, sitting on the shelves of a video store, this one is something special. Don't delay in garnering a view for you and your partner soon.

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Under appreciated movie, 18 juillet 2006

Auteur : basildave de Boston

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I've always wondered why this film wasn't very well liked. Maybe it's not upbeat enough or grandiose enough in scope. Henry doesn't bring down his former law firm and he doesn't recover fully (and you don't know that he will). However, it's a testament to Harrison Ford's normally under utilized ability as an actor. He essentially plays two roles (bad Henry at first and recuperating good Henry after the shooting). Seeing Henry discover his family and, in the process, give up his former life as a lawyer is heartening and done in a realistic manner. This movie shows us how easy it is to lose track of what is really important in our lives and should impress on the viewer that it should NOT take a bullet in the head to make us realize that. I think it's main problem is that it does not use anymore than a quiet kind of power to make its' points but that, I think, is part of the appeal of the film.

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The Epitome of the American Feel-Good Film, 30 mars 2007

Auteur : jzappa de Etats-Unis

Regarding Henry is about a man who projects a cold, emotional shell and seems as if he cares nothing for anyone but himself, full of malice that seems like simple inconsideration, a self-centered cockiness, and an extreme difficulty with allowing mutual understanding amongst those close to him, especially his uneasy wife and unhappy daughter. When he is shot incidentally in a robbery, because his emotional shell drops for no one, not even an armed thug in a convenience store, he recovers over the course of a few months, with serious brain injury, reverting him to an almost childlike state, thus a primal, basic form of himself, and a truly sensitive, caring person emerges, completely naive to the value system of his former self. His barefaced heart wrenched by all the decisions and actions he made leading up to the incident, he intends to fix them.

This is a wonderful premise and even more truthful and honest about the human condition that one may think, but to be honest, it is plagued by an almost unbearable lightness. A story this emotionally stimulating needs weight, further development, a script untouched by formula, and all these needs were fulfilled, the film would be yet even more fulfilling and the moral of the film would be less obvious and more provoking of insight and thought. I think it's a good movie, and tears will be shed, but in its requirements that had to be reached for fear of mainstream rejection or misunderstanding, not enough tears were should and it is left in a condition where its full potential is not reached.

Just as Mike Nichols, in the midpoint of his career around this film's time of release, began giving his films less atmosphere, less edge, less intensity (which would later return with films like Primary Colors and Closer), Harrison Ford's performances are normally quite stilted, even if he tends to be in very enjoyable movies, many of them classics. In Regarding Henry, he delivers one of his very finest, really feeling his character deeply and expressing emotion very realistically and compassionately.

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This film should have won an Oscar!, 29 mai 2006

Auteur : audlyenough de Etats-Unis

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

I highly commend Harrison Ford for playing the lead role & sending quality messages to the public through film, which has become the leading form of world-view communication. Family & the importance of remaining faithful to your spouse is portrayed in a wonderful, positive way. It also sends the message that lying is wrong--which it is--& a true friend doesn't gossip behind your back. Throughout the movie, Harrison Ford's performance remains consistent & gripping, & frequently comical--as in the scene in the library & at the breakfast table. The only problem I found with this film was the soundtrack--WOW. However distracting the music, Regarding Henry deserves to watched over & over again.

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Second Chances, 14 mai 2008

Auteur : sddavis63 (revsdd@gmail.com) de Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada

In a change of pace from his usual "action" type movies, Harrison Ford does a pretty good job here as Henry Turner - a high powered, selfish, self-absorbed, heartless, cold as ice (enough adjectives?) lawyer whose life revolves around work and who ignores both his wife and his young daughter for most of the time. Henry's life undergoes a major change as the result of a shooting, which resulted in massive brain damage. Coming out of his coma, Henry can't talk or walk and has no memory of anything or anyone. He really does start from scratch; a child in a man's body. Much of the movie is then taken up with watching Henry struggle to recover from his trauma.

OK - it's pretty predictable. Point given. (Having said that, I thought the movie might take an unexpected direction when Henry discovered the letters in his wife's dresser.) Predictable though it may be, however, it was still pretty well done I thought, and offers several tug at your heartstring sort of moments that are pretty good. Annette Bening was believable as Henry's wife Sarah, and I thought Mikki Allen did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of their young daughter Rachel - her fear, her confusion. It came across. In my opinion, though, stealing the show was Bill Nunn as Bradley, Henry's physiotherapist who helps him to rebuild a life that's very different from what he had, but is also far more fulfilling.

Ford, I thought, was better as the "new" Henry Turner - recovering from his trauma and turning into a new man. As the cold Henry at the beginning of the movie, he came across to me as almost too cold - a caricature of the heartless lawyer but not quite a believable character. That aside, I found this to be an enjoyable and interesting movie to watch, and the last scene at the school really did touch me. It's certainly not good enough to attain the level of a classic, but it is pretty good. 7/10

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Possibly Ford's best movie!, 24 janvier 2005

Auteur : miken-3 (kataman1@verizon.net) de Etats-Unis

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I know this movie was not a big hit when it came out but it is really a good film. Harrison Ford is great as one of his most likable characters that I have seen him portray. Henry, a corrupt lawyer who withholds evidence when his client is obviously guilty and a womanizer is seriously injured in a robbery. When he comes to, he has lost his memory and has to be re-taught just about everything. His teacher is a very virtuous man, who teaches Henry to enjoy the good things in life (Henry loves most of all Ritz crackers). Thus the mean, cheating Henry who forced his daughter to remain at a boarding school that she hates, is suddenly transformed into a kind man who cares about everybody's feelings. Eventually, he figures out that the Henry he once was a horrible person and he hopes never to go back to that life. Annette Benning is great and beautiful as the wife that had an uncaring husband who all of a sudden loves her more than anything. She has to decide if she is ready to leave the life they led with other uncaring and obnoxious friends. Priceless scenes, especially those involving Henry and his secretary!

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Poor cartoon-like drama unrelieved by remarkable Ford acting, 27 mai 2002
Auteur : trpdean de New York, New York

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'Regarding Henry' truly makes one wonder what ever happened to Mike Nichols. Once so very observant of adult conduct, he now sadly portrays the adult world as either an 8 year old might misunderstand it - or as P.T. Barnum might expect the suckers in the movie audience to grasp it.

We see little of the character Henry Turner at the beginning of the movie. We do see him:

a) succeed in his defense of several doctors, nurses and a hospital in a malpractice case;

b) upset that a completely mistaken (and hideous) dining room table had been delivered, and calling to insist the table he ordered by delivered within a few days for his large dinner party (seating 60);

c) lecture his daughter because she defied his instructions by taking from the kitchen and spilling, grape juice over a presumably expensive piano - he refrains from any physical punishment but grounds her for a single evening;

d) not wish to attend a party at which he forgets whether the hostess's name is Julia or Juliet, and makes a joke about the difficulty of conversing with out of town relatives and his advice for others in a similar predicament: take the relatives on a trip to the Statue of Liberty.

From this, we are to somehow gather that the man is a monster. Well, sorry, but I wasn't convinced at ALL!

When he later returns as a simpleton, I find him unsympathetic.

E.g. he outrageously steals a document of his client hospital from his firm's files (a document inconsistent with the presumed testimony of his nine defendants) to deliver to the plaintiff in the malpractice case. We are meant to cheer.

Since the plaintiff presumably didn't ask for the document in discovery, my thought was that Mr. Turner should now be disbarred for misappropriating the document and deliberately aiding his adversary!

Might the document have been already delivered to the adversary and discredited at trial? Might the document have been admitted in evidence but disbelieved (in the face of contrary testimony) by the jury? Might the document have been mistaken? (Presumably the author was placed on the witness stand herself). Might the document have been forged?

The movie has no time for any questions -it prefers "why, we were morally wrong because it states something at variance with the defense". The movie is THAT idiotic.

E.g., when the new Mr. Turner is hurt that his daughter cannot be pulled from her class at prep school in order to speak to him because his phone call is not an emergency, we are meant to cheer when he later pulls his daughter from the school. You see, a school that says he should call in the evening when the daughter is free, is a school to which only the heartless would send their child. (We don't see the grim alternative New York City public school to which he may now be required to send his child).

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E.g., when we learn that he and his wife were each involved in an affair, we are meant somehow to think that this was related to his work - or to his previous affluence. Why? I'm unaware that the rich cheat on spouses more often than the poor.

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E.g., when we see the lascivious physical therapist roll his eyes, his head and his tongue in speaking loudly of the appearance of each woman who passes, repeatedly saying "gotta get me some of THAT", and teaching these words to his patient just learning to speak, we are somehow not meant to recoil in sympathy for the demeaned women. Somehow this overly familiar physical therapist (to whom Turner is "Henry" from the first moment and who believes that addressing him as a child is therapeutic) is not a raunchy low-life but a heartwarming friend.

I hated the movie.

However, Harrison Ford's portrayal of the character is wonderful from start to finish. At the beginning, one truly believes that this is a successful lawyer. Later, one truly believes that this is a man who is struggling to move, to speak, to read. His portrayal is as fine as Tom Hanks' portrayal of Forest Gump.

Donald Moffat is fine as the senior partner of the firm, as is Annette Benning in a thankless "disease of the week" role as nurturing wife and mother. Unfortunately, the morose and passive daughter is written so badly that the young actress has little to play.

I had thought of recommending this movie for children under ten (its presumed real audience), but in truth, it would only convey ideas that are so moronic and prejudicial, that it's not a good idea.

"The Doctor" has a similar theme - but is far superior.

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