Regarding Henry

Regarding Henry

1991 "His life was based on power, success, and ruthlessness. Until a bullet made him think again."
Regarding Henry
Regarding Henry

Regarding Henry

6.7 | 1h48m | PG-13 | en | Drama

Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.

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6.7 | 1h48m | PG-13 | en | Drama , Romance | More Info
Released: July. 10,1991 | Released Producted By: Paramount , Scott Rudin Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.

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Cast

Harrison Ford , Annette Bening , Bill Nunn

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William A. Elliott

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Paramount , Scott Rudin Productions

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Jackson Booth-Millard I had heard about this film for some time, mainly because of the leading actor and bits and pieces I had heard about the concept, I hoped it would be something I would enjoy, written by J.J. Abrams (Forever Young, Alias, Lost, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), directed by Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Closer, Charlie Wilson's War). Basically Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) is an ambitious and highly successful Manhattan lawyer, but he is obsessed with work and has a callous, narcissistic, and sometimes unethical nature. Henry being despicable and ruthless in the workplace, spending the majority of his time there leaves him little time to be with his prim socialite wife Sarah (Annette Bening) and troubled pre-teenage daughter Rachel (Mikki Allen). One night, Henry goes into a convenience store for cigarettes, there he interrupts a robbery, the Gunman (John Leguizamo) shoots Henry in the chest and head before fleeing. The bullet to the head hit Henry's right frontal lobe, and the bullet to the chest hit Henry's left subclavian vein, this means he experienced internal bleeding and a cardiac arrest, but more imminently he has suffered brain damage, losing the ability to move or speak, and suffers retrograde amnesia. With the help of a physical therapist Bradley (Bill Nunn), Henry slowly regains his movement and speech, returning home he is almost childlike, with Rachel teaching him to read, being impressed by his surroundings, and forming new friendships with his family and colleagues. Henry realises he does not like the person he was before the shooting, and she and her daughter have become much closer, she is not happy to be going to an out-of-town elite school for girls, as had been planned for her, Henry and Sarah also become much closer, returning to how passionate they felt when they first met, she suggests they should relocate to a smaller, less expensive residence. Henry is allowed to return to work at his firm, but his old assignments and large office are taken away, he is essentially only assigned busy work, he begins to realise he does not want to be a lawyer anymore, this is confirmed when he hears "friends" making derogatory comments about him at a dinner. Henry finds a letter to Sarah from a former colleague disclosing an affair, he is also approached by fellow attorney Linda (Rebecca Miller) who reveals that they also had an affair and had told her he would leave Sarah for her, this makes Henry have second thoughts about himself and his relationships. Henry gives documents from his last case that were suppressed by the firm to the plaintiff who was right all along, he apologises to them, in the end Henry resigns from the firm, says goodbye to Linda, returns to and reconciles with Sarah, realising everything with their lives, before the shooting, was wrong, and finally they withdraw Rachel from the school, Henry and her family all walk away happy. Also starring Donald Moffat as Charlie Cameron, James Rebhorn as Dr. Sultan, Aida Linares as Rosella, Elizabeth Wilson as Henry's secretary Jessica, Robin Bartlett as Phyllis, Bruce Altman as Henry's partner Bruce and John MacKay as George. Ford is often in roles showing not much emotion, so it is perhaps an odd choice for him to be a mean lawyer turning nice, Bening gets some good moments as his wife, it is a very simple story, it may have its flaws in terms of star power, some sympathy for the characters and some predictable bits, but can just get washed up in the glossiness of it, it is a nice enough story, a reasonable drama. Worth watching!
chcarr-44-976134 This is possibly the worst movie about traumatic brain injury (TBI) ever made. As a former speech therapist who worked with children and adults recovering from TBI I was appalled at the lack of apparent research in preparation for the film. Nichols and Ford were so far off the mark it was embarrassingly silly. Example: For person recovering language it's a bad idea to swamp them with so much language that all words become a meaningless string of sounds. It's the same as dropping a non-swimmer in the ocean knowing all that water is going to teach him to swim. The physical therapist was probably the worst and any self respecting speech therapist would've told him to be quiet. The plot is simple predictable and unmoving.why this director would take these actors and toss them into a dramatic ocean and expect them to swim without direction is as silly as their depiction of recovering from TBI.
leplatypus The movie is rather well directed, well scored, well played with a special mention for the daughter and the trainer but the story is just unrealistic. I know it has been written by mister Abrams (who does a cameo) but the story he wants us to believe has nothing to do with the real life. As too many Hollywood desk writers, the characters have no connection with the audience. Here, it's not the courageous cop or the brave doctor but the well-known brilliant and successful lawyer! We should tell those writers that there are thousand jobs outside to pick to tell a story! With such a dumb choice, the emotion is clearly washed up as Harrison gets the best doctor, the best clinic, the best house, the best school for the daughter, the best hotel and so on… His rebuilding as a new man is a good idea but considering the starting point, I really don't care after. About Harrison, he is always this formidable soft-spoken guy who is right and doesn't let go! But as I don't like to watch him play a bad guy, I don't like more to see him suffer. Finally, I have strong reservations before watching it and after watching it, it confirms that I shouldn't have picked it up!
Rich Wright If this film teaches us anything its that we should all get brain injuries so we can be more thoughtful, happy people. Take Henry for instance: One minute he's a ruthless lawyer with no morals, alienated from his wife and daughter... Then, when he's shot and brain damaged in a hit-and-run newsagent raid, and after his (surprisingly quick) rehabilitation, he transforms into a far more pleasant, laid-back kinda guy. EVERYONE says they prefer the new him... apart from the nasty attorney snobs he used to call friends, and he quickly realises he can never return to his old ways. But, who cares? He seems more content than ever. In fact, I was so taken aback by his new found blissfulness after his devastating injuries, it got me thinking... Pass me that hammer will ya? *BONK*Well, that didn't work... It just meant I had to take two aspirin. YOU LIED TO ME, HAN SOLO!! Seriously though... if being on cloud nine means being reduced to a former shell of yourself, I'll pass thanks. And that's the problem here... Everything, from Henry's too-speedy recovery, to his discovered appreciation of what matters to him in life seems too calculated, too designed in the fabric of the movie. We're not really looking at a motion picture about a man recuperating after a massive head trauma, it's more about a yuppy finding out that life isn't about dinner parties and expensive furniture. A nice thought, but Frank Capra was doing this sort of thing 50 years ago with slightly more panache.Don't get me wrong, though. There's plenty to admire here, from Harrison Ford's affecting performance, the chemistry he has with a luminous Annette Bening and a script which efficiently involves us in the main character's plight from the get-go. It's just that everything is too simply dealt with considering how difficult the central premise should be, and the choice between being a depressed workaholic and a happy-go-lucky family man... Well, there's no choice at all, is there? In other words, a little more complexity and drama would have been nice. It's not bad. But it COULD have been something special... 6/10