Henry Fool () cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Hal Hartley Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Hal Hartley (uncredited) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Thomas Jay Ryan. 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. A screenplay set in an apparently settled suburban American community whose underlying tensions come bursting to the surface with the arrival of a stranger. Henry Fool insinuates himself into the family of a garbage man named Simon, and changes their lives irrevocably/5.
Looser, more expansive and certainly more scatological than Hartley's earlier work, this very funny, finally touching fable focuses on the way Henry Fool (Ryan) - a bawdy, rebellious. 'Henry Fool' starts off as a typical 'mysterious man wanders into town' story. Thomas Jay Ryan plays the title character, a boisterous miscreant who fancies himself a writer/philosopher. Hartley establishes his sardonic sense of humor and idiosyncratic style of dialogue (imagine if Richard Linklater had read too much Pinter as an undergrad) but. "Henry Fool" is about the accidents of commitment. Henry's commitment as a friend and teacher to Simon is simply the result of his need to pontificate wildly -- he needs an audience. And, of course, Henry never really commits to Fay. They are a train wreck of a couple. But I think they do love each other and their son.
Henry Fool is a 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. A screenplay set in an apparently settled suburban American community whose underlying tensions come bursting to the surface with the arrival of a stranger. Henry Fool insinuates himself into the family of a garbage man named Simon, and changes their lives irrevocably. Henry Fool is exactly the kind of character piece that Hal Hartley Review by Luke McCarthy A film which parodies the idea of 'important' art, whilst simultaneously positing self-expression as something sacred and communicative.
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