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

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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