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Heavy

  • 19951995
  • RR
  • 1h 45m
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6.8/10
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Liv Tyler and Pruitt Taylor Vince in Heavy (1995)
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The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.
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    • James Mangold
    • James Mangold
  • Stars
    • Pruitt Taylor Vince
    • Liv Tyler
    • Shelley Winters
    • James Mangold
    • James Mangold
  • Stars
    • Pruitt Taylor Vince
    • Liv Tyler
    • Shelley Winters
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    • 63User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
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    Pruitt Taylor Vince
    • Victor Modino
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    Liv Tyler
    • Callie
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    Debbie Harry
    Debbie Harry
    • Delores
    • (as Deborah Harry)
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    Joe Grifasi
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    Evan Dando
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    David Patrick Kelly
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    J.C. MacKenzie
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    • (as J.C. Mackenzie)
    Allan D'Arcangelo
    • Sonny
    Vince Parenti
    Vince Parenti
    • Trucker
    • (uncredited)
    Dennis Prager
    Dennis Prager
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      • James Mangold
      • James Mangold
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    • Trivia
      According to James Mangold, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Shelley Winters clashed early on during the production. Mangold said that as Vince was preparing for what was his first leading role in a film, he had felt upstaged by Winters. Mangold said that given her reputation as a Hollywood star, she had been very loud and theatrical, making Vince feel overshadowed. With tensions running high, Mangold went to Winters and told her that she had to make things right with him. Winters begrudgingly agreed and on the next day when they were preparing to shoot, Winters had Vince meet her on set in front of the cast and crew. Winters told Vince of all the famous people she's worked with, including Gene Hackman and Stanley Kubrick and the insults she called them, telling Vince that he now joined a long list of respected Hollywood people that she had insulted. Mangold said the tensions had gone away after that and they worked together well.
    • Goofs
      Victor is walking across a bridge toward the camera with a bag of groceries in one arm and just before he stops to look over the side, a fuzzy mike cover can be seen briefly in the bottom left corner of the shot.
    • Quotes

      Grey Man in Hospital: You're as big as an ox and no one sees you. I am the same way, I am loud and no one hears me, but when I whisper everyone looks around like something happened.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Rock/Heavy/The Phantom/Homage/Ma Saison Preferee (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Lost
      Written by Peter Case

      Performed by The Plimsouls

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    10/10
    A realistic and touching look at the life of a big guy.
    This film is beautifully shot, and full of emotion. It is a character study. Very little action,of even the most basic kind. But you are drawn into the film, if you have even the slightest compassion, by the sheer loneliness and alienation of the characters.

    The lead character, Vincent, is a middle aged man, weighing 250lbs. Heavy.

    Our first introduction to Vincent plays upon our own bigoted perceptions of big guys: that they're all perverts. But through the film, we get to know Vince, and find that he is motivated, or rather paralyzed, by a fear of change and a painful shyness. His also a highly moral person. Not in the Christian sense, which would tend to make him seem truly perverse, but in the Human sense. He believes in Dignity and, despite the seemingly futility of it, Hope. These are hard things to find in the small town in which he resides; especially considering he works in the family pub. I won't give away the ending, but HOPE sums it up.

    The film deals with the hardships of being an overweight man, without indicting anyone or blaming anyone; and without telling the audience that being a big boy is inherently evil. In fact, Director James Mangold has much affection for this lonely man. If you have ANY opportunity to watch this film on DVD with Mangold's commentary, please do, but only after you have watched the film once or twice.

    Pruitt Taylor Vince is perhaps in this film better than I have ever seen him. He is a beautiful man, whose eyes are filled with every emotion imaginable. I can tell, he has been through these painful experiences before in his own life.

    The rest of the cast is great too. You won't see glamorous people here. Shelly Winters plays the mother with a spareness that makes you think there's not much underneath, but as the film unfolds you find the exact opposite.

    Deborah Harry essentially revisits the "Wise Guy" character she played, but without the glamor. Lost and desperate, and too old to pretend she's not.

    Liv Tyler, in one of her first roles, is also lost and desperate, but without the cynicism of Harry. Great counterbalance. She is also beautiful, and compassionate.

    Mangold knows human nature. Here, he takes the brave step of challenging the audience to stop and think about it. The pauses in this movie are amazing, and say more than 30 minutes of a traditional narrative film do. This film is not just about a heavy guy...it is about all of us; how we react to those who are different, our own insecurities, our own sorrows, loneliness, and frail hearts. And yet, it defies becoming a "chick flick," Perhaps because it does center around the man's experiences, or perhaps because it does not cop out at the end with Cinderella fantasies.

    WATCH THIS FILM.
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    • May 27, 2001

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      • June 5, 1996 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • 104 Highland Lake Rd, Highland Lake, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Available Light Productions
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    • 1 hour 45 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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