Glide Path

“Larry Crowne makes no bones about its attempt to tell an upbeat story,” writes Marshall Fine. “Undoubtedly, at a time when unemployment is soaring and lives are collapsing as a result, some may fault it for taking a sour subject – losing a job in a down economy – and turning it into a feel-good story. But Hanks’ script – cowritten with Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame – is about a guy with a positive attitude, with the will and resources to move forward.

“No doubt Larry Crowne will be criticized for all of the things it doesn’t do. It doesn’t address the economic tragedy that Larry’s situation means for so many people. It doesn’t build to a life-and-death climax. It is, instead, a stealth comedy, low-key but consistently satisfying, a movie that focuses on the power of positivity without getting melodramatic about it.”

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15 thoughts on “Glide Path”

  1. it makes that indie comedy Everything Must Go look like hardcore drama …. L CROWNE is feelgood entertainment for people who endorse glucosamine and believe the Warren Commission …. it’s an appletini for the geritol set …. all of the above

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  2. berg: so being positive is now associated with being old. interesting.

    so we can now refrain from using cliches and generalizations like “old and cranky” and replace them with “ancient and upbeat?”

    You do that while I try to work “youthfully miserable” into a sentence.

    Or better yet: take your cliches and generalizations and shove them where the sun DOES shine.

    Now back to critical studies 101.

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  4. Or better yet: take your cliches and generalizations and shove them where the sun DOES shine … I always preferred fold it six times and shove it where the moon doesn’t shine … someone seriously asked me if Larry Crowne was a movie where Tom Hanks played a retard and I told them no that was Forrest Gump – Larry Crowne is a movie where the entire film is retarded …. I did like the Rousselot lensing and the cycle montage in the first act when it looks like it could still be a decent sit

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  5. Here’s Armond White:

    “Larry Crowne’s lack of cynicism requires an audience

    that doesn’t hate itself.”

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  7. “Here’s Armond White:

    ‘Larry Crowne’s lack of cynicism requires an audience

    that doesn’t hate itself.’ ”

    In a hilariously ironic twist, reading Armond White’s reviews require an audience that does.

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