The Hero
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
5 April 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
6 April 1948, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
29 January 1940, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 March 1980, Watchung, New Jersey, USA
17 October 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 January 1966, Bronx, New York, USA
27 November 1974, USA
August 28, 2017
[Elliot's] a pleasure to watch, but a little more movie would have been welcome, too.
August 10, 2017
Not a lot happens in The Hero. Yet it is a deeply affecting warts-and-all rumination on thwarted ambitions, failed marriages and filial relationships gone sideways.
June 23, 2017
The script around him doesn't do Elliott or the character justice, and is a missed opportunity at a late-in-life comeback role for the one-time Western star.
July 14, 2017
Rarely has a mainstream film taken as unflinching a look at aging and illness without losing its sense of humor.
June 22, 2017
Elliott does some of his finest work in one of the best movies in his career, a drama that feels like a biography.
June 23, 2017
Two good things are not enough to goose this all-too-familiar tale of a selfish man who wakes up one day, realizes that he blew it and scrambles to fix it before it's too late.
June 20, 2017
Nothing terribly novel here, but director Brett Haley has assembled a strong cast and a generous spirit, and Elliott has a way of finding poetry in silent gaze, speaking his lines as if written on velvet.
June 22, 2017
Is there an American actor of more meaningful solitude than Sam Elliott?
August 22, 2017
If Sam Elliott wasn't in it, The Hero would feel like a slog.
July 14, 2017
Most of all, it benefits from the presence of Sam Elliott, still abiding after all these years.
June 29, 2017
It's one of his finest and most memorable performances. Unfortunately, the script fails to rise to the level of Elliott's artistry.
July 20, 2017
There are no surprises here, and the whole affair is a bit too modest. But Elliott's voice and his face have a lived-in quality that is unforgettable. The actor makes The Hero an enjoyable, worthy drama.
