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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   4,133 votes
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Director:
Writers:
John Irving (novel)
Tony Richardson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
9 March 1984 (USA) more
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Tagline:
If you experienced "The World According To Garp" and found it witty, delightful and totally unpredictable, then be happily surprised all over again when you join the fun and games that go on at the...Hotel New Hampshire
Plot:
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all... more | add synopsis
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Excellent movie more (51 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rob Lowe ... John Berry

Jodie Foster ... Frannie Berry

Paul McCrane ... Frank

Beau Bridges ... Mr. Win Berry
Lisa Banes ... Mother
Jennifer Dundas ... Lilly (as Jennie Dundas)

Seth Green ... 'Egg' Berry
Wally Aspell ... Hotel Manager

Nastassja Kinski ... Susie the Bear

Joely Richardson ... Waitress

Wallace Shawn ... Freud
Jobst Oriwol ... German Man (as Jobst Oriwal)
Linda Clark ... German Woman
Nicholas Podbrey ... Boy with Rifle
Norris Domingue ... High School Band Conductor
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Runtime:
109 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | USA:R (Approved No. 27215) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:16
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Rob Lowe broke his nose while filming a fight scene. more
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Factual errors: In the award ceremony scene, numerous Austrian flags are show, but all are the civil/merchant version. As an official government function, the flags would have been the state flag (the government flag.) Unlike the United States, Austria and many other nations have multiple national flags for different purposes (government, civilian/merchant, military, on shore versus afloat, etc.) Austria's state flag bears the national coat of arms in the centre, overlapping into both of the red bars. The vertical version of the state flag has the coat of arms turned 90 degrees and placed within a shield. None of the flags in the scene bore the coat of arms. more
Quotes:
John: Love floats, just like sorrow. more
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Soundtrack:
Good Golly Miss Molly more

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17 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent movie, 26 June 2000
8/10
Author: ivar.agoy from Norway

I just purchased this film on a Norwegian home video, and the cover bragged about the ratings it had gotten in Norwegian newspapers (5 out of 6 in the major papers). I thought this had to be a good movie, so I checked it out on this site, and was surprised to see how bad the reviews were here.

Now I've seen the film and I must say that I agree much more with the Norwegian reviewers than the users of this site (except those who gave it a good review). This movie is brilliant. Almost as good as The World According To Garp, which happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time.

The excellence of these films is that they're so focused on the main characters in the movie, that you really start to know them, and care about them. This is something you don't see in many movies. Here you follow the whole family from they're young 'till they're old, and you start understanding how they've become the way they are, and why they act the way they do.

As Garp, this movie is also very much focused on sex and love, and in the most bizarre ways possible. But so what? In the world there are many types of persons, why should a book or a movie just focus on the "normal" ones? The fact that the persons in these films are not "normal" makes them more acceptable and believable to the average viewer. "Normal" in movies normally means perfect, and very few persons are perfect... In Garp and New Hampshire the characters are not perfect, and that's what makes the films perfect...

The cast also does an excellent work with their characters, everybody is believable. And the director has done an excellent job pacing the film in a way that it doesn't move too fast, and it never bores you by going to slow.

All in all: an excellent movie that I'd recommend to anyone who hasn't yet been completely brainwashed by Hollywood's image of perfectionism. Almost as good as Garp. If you liked Garp, you'll love this one too. And vice versa. I give this film an 8 (almost 9) out of 10.

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