Larry Crowne
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(Running time: 99 Minutes) Rated PG-13
Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Larry Crowne is a breath of fresh air. Written by Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), the movie is delightful.
Larry (Hanks) has been employee-of-the-month at a big box store nine times. Suddenly, he is downsized, out of a job, because he doesn’t have a college degree. He enrolls in the local college and begins slowly, taking two courses and desperately looking for a job so he won’t lose his house. He takes a speech course and meets Ms. Mercedes Tainot (Roberts), his professor.
Larry is a sweet, gentle guy who spent 20 years as a cook in the Navy. His marriage dissolved and he lives alone. Ms. Tainot’s marriage is crumbling and she is depressed doing the same job with bored students.
The movie provides a wealth of warm, funny, quirky supporting characters, created with great writing in brief, thumbnail sketches. Larry is a decent guy dealing admirably with a hand full of lousy cards dealt him by life; you’re rooting for him from the get-go. Although Mercedes appears as a dislikable, burned-out teacher in the beginning, we’re rooting for her by the end, too.
I loved this story, the organic way it unfolded, the way the characters developed and the happy ending. There is no violence, some sexual references, including a brief view of a porno page on a computer (not close up) and a little foul language (including the “f” word once by Ms. Tainot). Don’t let that stop you from seeing one of the best movies so far this year. Take your kids 13 and up who will not object to an older man as the main character.
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