Heavy (1995)

Directed by

James Mangold

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 91 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An overweight cook living a quiet life with his mother falls for a new waitress at their roadside tavern. She is a college dropout who becomes a spark of hope in his otherwise isolated existence.

melancholicquietlonelytenderslow-pacedintrospectivebittersweetwistfulgentle

What happens

Heavy is a 1995 American independent drama film written and directed by James Mangold, in his directorial debut. It stars Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Deborah Harry. The plot focuses on an unhappy overweight cook (Vince) whose life is changed after an enchanting college drop-out (Tyler) begins working as a waitress at his and his mother's roadside tavern. The film explores themes of loneliness, false hope, unrequited love, and self-worth. Mangold wrote the screenplay for Heavy while attending filmmaking seminars at Columbia University and partly based it on real people he knew while growing up in Upstate New York. Filming took place on location in and around Barryville and Hyde Park in 1993; some scenes were filmed at the Culinary Institute of America's campus there. The film features an original soundtrack by Thurston Moore, as well as songs by Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, who also has a minor role in the film. Heavy premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize and was later screened at Cannes where it competed for the Caméra d'Or. The film received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on December 29, 1995, and later had a limited release in the United States on June 5, 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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