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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.
Jun 19, 1998 · Henry Fool: Directed by Hal Hartley. With Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter. An introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea.
- (7.9K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Hal Hartley
- 1998-06-19
Garbageman Simon Grim's life of routine drudgery is changed forever when the rogueish Henry Fool moves into his family's basement apartment. Henry fancies h...
- 2 min
- 110.8K
- Adrian Horn
Equal parts emotional and funny, thoughtful and disturbing, director Hal Hartley brings us a riotous epic of friendship, ambition and forgiveness. Subtitles: English. Starring: Parker Posey Thomas Jay Ryan James Urbaniak Maria Porter Kevin Corrigan Veanne Cox Jan Leslie Harding James Saito Liam Aiken.
- Hal Hartley
- January 1, 1997
- Parker Posey
Henry Fool "Henry Fool" is the whole nine yards on Hal Hartley in one movie. Poetic, bawdy, contemplative, often side-wrenchingly funny and finally quite touching, this tale about a nerdy garbage ...
Dec 16, 2003 · Henry convinces Simon to write in a journal and learns that he is a poetic prodigy. When Simon’s work appears on the Internet, he becomes a controversial sensation. As Simon’s career rises and Henry’s falls, Henry turns to Simon for help. Also featuring Parker Posey (Superman Returns), HENRY FOOL is an original and thought-provoking film.
- DVD
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A garbage man becomes a poet with the help of a writer and ex-con, Henry Fool. The film follows their friendship, rivalry and betrayal as they rise and fall in the literary world.
