Henry Poole Is Here (movie)

" Henry Poole Is Here" is a gentle, mild comedy-drama about an opaque fellow ( Luke Wilson) told he has an incurable disease and will soon die. He responds, numbly, by buying a house down the street from the one he grew up in and holing up in it with...

Adriana Barraza entiende su personaje en la nueva cinta, Henry Poole is Here, como si fuera su propia persona: "Se llama Esperanza y es una mujer que, como su nombre lo dice, está llena de esperanza, y trata de infundirle algo de eso a Henry, un personaje...

(C+) Mark Pellington, the talented director and son of Baltimore Colts linebacker Bill Pellington, once said that if he ever did a film that was "a Baltimore movie" like Barry Levinson's autobiographical films or John Waters' funky slices of Charm City...

"Everything happens for a reason," the devoutly Catholic Esperanza tells the new guy who has just moved in next door. "No, it doesn't," retorts Henry Poole. The depressed and angry Henry ( Luke Wilson, quite good) has just bought a Southern California...

"Henry Poole Is Here" is a gentle, mild comedy-drama about an opaque fellow (Luke Wilson) told he has an incurable disease and will soon die. He responds, numbly, by buying a house down the street from the one he grew up in and holing up in it with...

After purchasing a generic home in suburban Los Angeles, Henry Poole ( Luke Wilson) moves in and awaits death, covering his windows, sleeping all day and self-medicating with vodka. Neither a well-meaning neighbor named Esperanza (Adriana Barraza, the...

'Everything happens for a reason," the devoutly Catholic Esperanza tells the new guy who has just moved in next door. "No, it doesn't," Henry Poole retorts. He's confronted with a stain on the side of his Southern California tract house, a place that...

IF THE clothes make the leading man, Luke Wilson is angling to play the handsome high school lit teacher -- you know, the one who made you cry when he read aloud from "A Separate Peace." He rarely veers from his Kennedy-era haircut and typically shows...