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Harvey
Elwood P. Dowd is a wealthy drunk who starts having visions of a giant rabbit named Harvey. The whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane, but Elwood may be wiser than anyone knows.
18 March 1928, Columbia, Mississippi, USA
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
20 May 1908, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
October 23, 1903 in Wichita, Kansas, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 November 1911, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
28 October 1883, Alton, Illinois, USA
22 August 1893, Cape Town, South Africa
29 May 1904, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
26 February 1888, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2 October 1917, New York City, New York, USA
August 15, 2011
A modest family film that lays on the sweetness a bit to heavily.
March 29, 2011
Great performances lifts this movie above its stilted script and production.
March 25, 2006
If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of Harvey is definitely for you.
May 29, 2008
Its one-note shtick wears thin.
December 26, 2014
Elwood may be a drunk (or not -- does he ever actually take a drink?), and he may be delusional, but he is also happier, less neurotic, and more content than the so-called normal people who surround him and claim to be looking out for his best interests.
March 26, 2009
Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation.
September 13, 2012
Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd is a soft-spoken philosopher and a friend to all -- he's quite disarming, and so is this movie.
February 09, 2006
Charming, lightweight stuff (from a play by Mary Chase), so long as you can take Stewart's ingenuousness, but it does wear thin.
March 29, 2011
This is a happy movie and leaves a long, lingering warm glow.
March 16, 2004
What makes Harvey great is the fact that it's equally enjoyable as a piece of comedic fluff and as slyly intelligent social commentary.
March 29, 2011
Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story.
August 03, 2009
Henry Koster might not have been the right director for this whimsical fantasy, based on the 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, but Jimmy Stewart and especially Josephine Hull (in an Oscar-winning turn) are superb.
