Hal Hartley's 10-years-later sequel to HENRY FOOL (1998) is a hugely entertaining follow-up to his ponderous suburban fable about a boorish, self-styled intellectual and the garbage man he accidentally transforms into a world-famous poet.
Seven years after murderer Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan) vanished, along with the autobiographical "confessions" he was convinced would turn the literary world on its ear, leaving his wife, the high-strung, unsophisticated Fay Grim (Parker Posey), and her brother, trash-collector-turned-literary-phenomenon Simon Grim (James Urbaniak), in the lurch. Fay is a single mother of troublesome, 14-year-old Ned (Liam Aiken) and doesn...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
119 mins