Rating of
2.5/4
Feel Good Movie!
MovieAddict - wrote on 10/18/12
Tom Hanks plays Larry Crowne, who is a middle-aged divorcée struggling to pay for his house and a divorce settlement working at a retail store. After winning 8 employees of the month awards he is fired from his job because he didn't go to college.
He ends up taking the advice of his lottery-lucky neighbors (Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji B. Henson) and enrolls himself in community college. Julia Roberts plays his public speaking teacher, Mercedes Tainot, an attractive but bitter woman, seeming to be burned out and in a horrid relationship with a man who cares more about hot babes with big boobs than managing his relationship. He basically sits at home all day looking at porn.
Larry buys a used scooter from his neighbor Lamar and heads off for his first day of college where he meets Talia who is determined to turn Larry into a "cool" college student through new clothes and her charming group of cyclists.
George Takei was very funny as the economics teacher from whom Larry learns about the nuances of business, as was Cedric the Entertainer as the neighbor having the perpetual garage sale.
It’s sweet, engaging, not laugh out funny but there are a lot of feel-good moments….
