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Henry Fool (1997)
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Ratings: 7.2/10 from 4,490 users
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Reviews: 83 user | 41 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist... See full summary » Director:Hal HartleyWriter:(uncredited) See more » |
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Mary
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Mr. Deng
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Officer Buñuel
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Father Hawkes
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Amy
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Laura
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Vicky
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Pearl (age 7)
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Pearl - Age 14
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Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the 'great American poem'. As Simon begins his controversial ascent to the dizzying heights of Nobel Prize winning poet, Henry sinks to a life of drinking in low-life bars. The two friends fall out and lose touch until Henry's criminal past catches up with him and he needs Simon's help to flee the country. Written by Josh Mueller <jomuelle@mailbox.syr.edu>
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As Confissões de Henry Fool See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$40,939 (USA) (21 June 1998) (2 Screens)Gross:
$1,338,335 (USA)Company Credits
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Fay Grim: Push over.
Henry Fool: As I tried to make plain in Paris: 'Nous savons que nous avons chuté parce que nous savons qui nous sommes.' 'We know we have fallen because we know who we are.
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Henry Fool: The greats all say the same thing: little. And what little there is to be said is immense. Or, in other words, follow your own genius to where it leads without regard for the apparent needs of the world at large, which, in fact, has no needs as such, but, rather, moments of exhaustion in which it is incapable of prejudice. We can only hope to collide with these moments of unselfconsciousness. This divine fatigue. This...Fay Grim: Push over.
Henry Fool: As I tried to make plain in Paris: 'Nous savons que nous avons chuté parce que nous savons qui nous sommes.' 'We know we have fallen because we know who we are.
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