Henry Fool (1998)
- Directed by
- Hal Hartley
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 109 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A mysterious stranger arrives in a working class Long Island town and upends the lives of a fatherless family. Old truths and new expectations clash as the outsider's presence stirs up hidden ambitions and secrets.
quirkydeadpanoffbeatintellectualdarkly comicunderstatedcerebralslow-burn
What happens
Henry Fool is a 1997 American black comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey. Set like previous Hartley films in less affluent parts of Long Island, it recounts how the lives of a fatherless family are overturned by a mysterious outsider and how, as in The Unbelievable Truth, expectation and reality again conflict. The film won the best screenplay award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. A sequel, titled Fay Grim, was released in 2006. Another sequel, titled Ned Rifle, was released in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Not Even the Trees (1998)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.