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Larry Crowne

Larry Crowne

2011
Romance, Comedy
1h 38m
After being laid off from his longtime job at a soulless retail giant, average middle-aged guy Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides it's time to change up his life, so he heads back to college. There, he finds a new perspective -- and a new romance with a professor (Julia Roberts).
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Larry Crowne

2011
Romance, Comedy
1h 38m
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Rated 13 Jul 2011
70
42nd
It's a solid dramedy that survives Julia Roberts due to the inevitable "I-want-to-get-behind-Tom-Hanks" feeling. But, despite a divorce and getting fired, having no income to speak of for weeks on end (yet somehow affording to go back to school?), there's never this feeling of dread surrounding Larry; you never really feel like he's in trouble. The one scene of him being sad and the scene in the bank don't quite cut it. I guess I was hoping to see some dread. But it's a good movie nonetheless.
Rated 22 Aug 2011
50
38th
Needs more of Wilmer Valderrama, George Takei and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Needs less of Julia Roberts and Cedric the Entertainer. Has, as is always the case, just enough Tom Hanks. I feel like Julia Roberts might have stepped on the wrong set and thought she was in Bad Teacher or something. Larry Crowne is a bit thin, both as a film and as a character, but it is entertaining enough to warrant the time spent and occasionally genuinely charming. Almost exclusively when Roberts is off-screen.
Rated 03 Jan 2012
58
12th
Amiable enough learning-to-live-life-after-a-disaster comedy, although the idea of Hanks earning $20m to make us feel a bit better about losing our jobs in the recession sticks in my throat somewhat.
Rated 10 Sep 2011
41
17th
Everything here seems too easy and good to appeal for more than 30, 40 minutes, and, I might not be sure, but I felt like Julia was kind of bored, and Tom repeating the nice guy all over again -- Crowne is a crossover between Forrest Gump and that loser from The Terminal. It's like a lazy Frank Capra shooting a bad film with the financial crisis background. It's naive and I get the feeling that Larry Crowne himself likes to be seen that way. Ok.
Rated 31 Jan 2012
60
36th
This movie should have been called 'LET'S GET TOPICAL, Y'ALL!"
Rated 04 Jul 2011
64
16th
Barring its ringing endorsement of a liberal college education, Republicans should love this. 4 Crowne life only gets better after being fired. He also loses his home& must return 2 a job he hates, but that's not disaster- it's opportunity. W/ a strong work ethic & the help of a certified Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hanks can score a hot college professor. Populated w/ only-in-the-movies caricatures, the only thing that works is watching the likable Hanks & Roberts make an unlikely romance plausible.
Rated 29 Jan 2012
52
34th
Roger Ebert: "Larry Crowne is a nice man who becomes nicer with the encouragement of other nice people."
Rated 22 Nov 2011
74
24th
Nothing special, but the two stars make it work. Roberts is more acerbic and less cute than usual, and I like her better that way.
Rated 25 Jul 2011
20
7th
steaming pile of lance
Rated 24 Mar 2013
20
5th
Unspectackler.
Rated 23 Apr 2012
78
66th
i can't help but root for the title character, partially because of him losing his job, and partially because it's tom hanks, but to be honest, he worked a shopping mall, so it's really not surprising that he took the layoff on the chin. it's one of those movies that easily facilitates a warm smile, but will be largely forgotten by the entire population in a year, actually it already has.
Rated 12 Sep 2012
48
13th
Definitely a movie my mom would like. Which means I had a hard time paying attention after the first seven minutes or so.
Rated 07 Oct 2012
55
21st
Extremely competent easy-going rom-com with an assortment of loveable characters. Skirts around cliches, letting you know it knows you know what it is. Shows an understanding that makes sense given Hanks' having played every role ever.
Rated 08 Mar 2017
70
21st
I would like to give it a 40, you know, as a standard romantic comedy with an absolutely poor plot.., but I need to be honest here. This movie is not SO bad. It is just "poorly good". It is good to disconnect your brain from life-pressure for a while.
Rated 08 Aug 2011
79
36th
What can I say, it won me over by the end... As INDYATMN says in their mini-review: "watching the likable Hanks & Roberts make an unlikely romance plausible", was good enough for me...
Rated 06 Jan 2018
46
14th
Seriously for like the first half hour, i thought he was mentally challenged. As for the rest of it, it's a pointless story of having to start over but there is seemingly no challenge to his life. He has to foreclose his house and buy a scooter. OK. Call me when he's shitting in a cardboard box, sucking off mid-level management for 20 bucks a pop. You call me.
Rated 16 Aug 2016
77
49th
Tom Hanks, obviously, has lots and lots of charisma. Really, I liked seeing him engage with his fellow community college classmates. However, I did not care for Julia Roberts's character and so it was unfortunate that so much of the story involved her romance with the protagonist.
Rated 21 Jun 2012
61
12th
Had potential to be a better movie. tried to be too feel goody. ended up just being cheesy in a bad way.
Rated 06 Jul 2011
85
50th
Quite enjoyable feel-good film.
Rated 20 Feb 2012
82
85th
Well, this movie is feelgood all the way, making light of the economic woes of its hero and his nation and choosing to see the world through rose-tinted spectacles. It's zeitgeisty à la Up In The Air or Everything Must Go, but bypasses all the heavy drama in favour of making mid-life crises seem cool. While you can kick it for this arrogance, its also a very charming movie, with quirky characters, light humourous touches, and a consistent pace and tone. A lot to like; another good job, Tom.
Rated 07 Jul 2011
38
3rd
I saw Larry Crowne because I love and miss Tom Hanks, but I expected a bad movie and I got one. What's so bad about it? It has all the characteristics of a soda cracker: it's boring and plain with a few salty bits of humor. This metaphor is getting away from me here, so let me sum up Larry Crowne like so: bleeeeeeeggghhhhhh.
Rated 18 Dec 2011
0
2nd
This film is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to begin.
Rated 27 Feb 2012
27
31st
Not up to Julia Robert's standards but not to far off what I'd expect from Tom Hanks. (yes I did love you've got mail and Charlie Wilson's War, but those were high points not norms for his career)
Rated 14 Apr 2014
50
50th
Those positive themes make the film's handful of problematic interjections that much more maddening. On paper, I'm sure Mercedes' boozy choices and her breast-obsessed hubby may have seemed like realistic conflicts to shove her toward divorce and eventually into Larry's embrace. But that kind of realism, instructive as it is, along with a PG-13-earning f-bomb, still comes at the expense of the movie's relatively wholesome vibe otherwise. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 26 Feb 2012
30
12th
Freshly divorced, fired and soon to be foreclosed Larry Crown is a story of psychopathic optimism. Rather than dealing with the crushing realities of our modern day depression (like lets say, Everything Must Go) here an overpriced community college teaches Crown how to dress cool, ride a Vespa and fart rainbows that rain gold on everyone in a land where the sun always shines and everyone gets laid. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Hollywood thinks it's like to be unemployed.
Rated 18 Dec 2012
10
3rd
One of the worst films I have ever seen! It hurts! Every second of it!
Rated 21 Apr 2012
75
38th
Little too schmaltzy for my taste, however, I've been raised to believe in Tom Hanks no matter what.
Rated 13 Jul 2011
75
53rd
The casting is perfect. The casting of Takei as an Economics teacher is like Bergman and Bogie in Casablanca... you could have the movie without it but it'd lose its charm. Not that this movie is Casablanca, I just like the comparison. -pats self- Anyway, Steve was really funny and while it did go a lil bit without laughs here and there, there were some huge laughs. Not bland, the setting may be (guy works at Umart and then takes economics n'shit... that's the point), but the movie is not.
Rated 09 Sep 2011
65
17th
You know a movie is forgettable and has no chemistry when it takes two days to remember that you even sat through it. Roberts is really unlikeable, Hanks doesn't seem to be even halfway bothered about being downsized, and any humor that doesn't come from Takei just falls flat.
Rated 22 Oct 2011
10
9th
"Wilmer Valderrama and George Takei's reaction shots are the only feeble sources of humor in this dramedy." - Nick Schager
Rated 29 Jan 2012
68
54th
Nice, clean fun.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
60
47th
A cute story, but nothing too special.
Rated 19 Jul 2012
50
21st
Moped gang. Moped ... gang.
Rated 26 Jan 2018
45
13th
Entertainment: 3/4 -- the romance wasn't convincing. Spirituality: 0.5/3. Sustainability: 1/3.
Rated 17 Nov 2012
68
38th
Very good movie I thought Tom Hanks was good.
Rated 08 Apr 2014
85
31st
just cute! but unreal, noone changes that fast
Rated 25 Feb 2012
50
9th
Tom Hank's is ok in this one but they could have and should have used a cardboard standee for the Julia Robert's teacher character. But then I've never like Julia.
Rated 01 Jul 2011
5
0th
The humanist opposite to Hollywood's self-congratulatory snark.
Rated 25 Jul 2012
40
19th
Passes the time.
Rated 15 Nov 2015
19
15th
A famous Hollywood actor Tom Hanks unemployed in the story produced by himself. Interesting. A close friendship between man and woman without intimate relationship. I started to like it! Well, the story was lousy melodrama and did not get anything good out of it. Disappointed.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
30
6th
This script - a collaboration between Hanks and Nia Vardalos, the writer and star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - would need multiple punch-up sessions to attain mediocrity. Roberts and Hanks aren't just prevented from playing their A games; they're never even taken off the bench.
Rated 25 Jan 2012
21
0th
Larry Crowne isn't offensively bad, but it IS incredibly bland and boring. The movie's only intention is going through the motions, checking every cliché on the list along the way, while ignoring the rotten core: Hanks and Roberts have no romantic chemistry whatsoever. The only laugh you'll get from it is the thought of the movie's writers coming up with the scooter gang idea as it if was a genius way of capturing the social zeitgeist; in truth it's as idiotic as the rest of the movie.
Rated 07 Sep 2011
50
6th
i watched this with the expectation of it being a comedy, but disappointed with the outcome. the characters were shallow, and the chemistry between larry and tainot could have been developed further. characters are one-dimensional at best, and even a 10 year old could predict the plot.
Rated 23 Nov 2011
100
51st
very good 10 out of 10
Rated 03 Nov 2012
67
20th
There are one or two interesting moments but this movie is almost entirely uneventful.
Rated 29 Mar 2012
40
6th
39.500
Rated 01 Aug 2018
60
19th
Tom Hanks can portray these amiable, everyman characters in his sleep, with charm to spare, which makes this slight, trite material a pleasant watch.
Rated 10 Nov 2021
50
41st
Hanks lifts the score by a few tiers all by himself.

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