Larry Crowne
When appealing everyman Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) is inexplicably fired from his job as a big box store clerk, he realizes it’s time for some meaningful change in his life. Deeply in debt and without direction, he returns to college where he befriends a group of scooter-riding students and eventually develops a real affection for his beautiful speech class instructor, Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts).
15 November 1985, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
1957
25 September 1970, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 January 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 September 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
4 January 1958, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
July 22, 2016
Tom Hanks's company Playtone appears to be dedicated to making movies where a Beach-Boys-y soundtrack and 1950s Boy Scout values still inform everything. Not necessarily a bad thing -- just cloying.
May 03, 2015
Bereft of conflict, the film coasts along in second gear on breezy charm, gentle humanism and star wattage.
July 08, 2011
...it's an old-fashioned star vehicle, fashioned for the particular screen personas of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts by Hanks himself, who directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Nia Vardalos. You may recall that he produced her breakthrough film...
June 30, 2013
A likeable and light-hearted comedy that doesn't attempt to be anything more.
July 06, 2011
Even if you wander into this congealed mess with nothing more demanding in mind than to spend a little time with two charming favorites, do not expect Forrest Gump or Pretty Woman.
July 18, 2011
To pluck romantic comedy from the jaws of a social crisis is a laudable project, worthy of Preston Sturges, and it's a pity that this featherlight drama-written by Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos, and directed by Hanks himself-should falter in its task.
July 05, 2011
Neither fish nor fowl, Larry Crowne skitters between pathos and shtick, wasting abundant acting talent as it goes.
July 07, 2011
Larry Crowne is more than a missed opportunity. It's alarmingly, depressingly out of touch.
October 07, 2015
But with such timely material and a stellar cast, it comes off mostly as a missed opportunity.
March 02, 2013
Larry Crowne is nothing we haven't seen before and at times feels over-done and cliched.
October 07, 2011
An exceedingly minor entry on already impressive resumés.
September 15, 2013
Hanks' dorky routine - right on through to the ridiculous ELO-soundtracked end credits as he and Roberts drives around on a scooter in front of a green screen - is thankfully not as draining as one may assume.
