Regarding Henry

Mike Nichols (1991)

102min

12 Certificate

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by Sue Heal

What looked like a sure-fire winner on paper - ruthless high-flying lawyer Harrison Ford fights back from brain injury and becomes a better person in the process - in fact emerged as a rather cold, lacklustre affair. Ford, who can be unnervingly emotionless on screen, was simply the wrong choice for the role, and director Mike Nichols invests the action with so much gloss and polish you feel as if your brain is swimming in an oil slick. Annette Bening looks lovely and gives one of the film's better performances, but from the start it's hard to sympathise with the family and their plight. A cynical, manipulative exercise that remains compulsively watchable despite its flaws thanks to the star power on board.

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An unscrupulous New York lawyer with no qualms about doing whatever it takes to succeed is forced to start life afresh after a shooting incident renders him brain-damaged - and utterly dependent on the people he has treated badly for so long. Mike Nichols' drama, starring Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Mikki Allen and Donald Moffat.

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Henry Turner Harrison Ford

Sarah Turner Annette Bening

Bradley Bill Nunn

Rachel Turner Mikki Allen

Charlie Donald Moffat

Rosella Aida Linares

Jessica Elizabeth Wilson

Phyllis Robin Bartlett

Bruce Bruce Altman

Linda Palmer Rebecca Miller

Court clerk R M Haley

Mr Matthews Stanley H Swerdlow

Mrs Matthews Julie Follansbee

George John MacKay

Julia Mary Gilbert

Doorman Peter Appel

Director Mike Nichols

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Language: EnglishColourTheatrical distributor: U.I.P. (UK)Guidance: Contains violence and swearing. Available on: video and DVD

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