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Harry and the Hendersons

post #1 of 10
4/24/03 at 7:09am
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Color me biased by nostalgia, but I think Harry and the Hendersons is a great family movie. It's got the bitter-sweet ending that sits with me just right, some quirky laughs and I'll be darned if the suit effects don't still hold up. I'm just curious, is this a chewer-approved movie? And furthermore, think a DVD release is in the cards?
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post #2 of 10
4/24/03 at 8:05am
Oh, I loved that movie! I wonder if I still would like it... Last time I saw the movie was something like ten years ago. I seem to remember that the Harry-suit was great, though. And Hercules Poirot was the bad guy.
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post #3 of 10
4/30/03 at 7:26pm
I havent seen this for YEARS! Last time I saw it was on TV when I was about 12 I think.
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post #4 of 10
5/1/03 at 2:33am
I concur. This movie has much furry goodness.
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post #5 of 10
5/1/03 at 7:57pm
The best Bigffot & John Lithgow movie EVER!
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post #6 of 10
6/4/11 at 12:34am

Seriously, I get the feeling many younger film fans these days seem to assume Pixar invented the perfectly balanced family film - you know the one that entertains the kids and the adults equally and maybe even squeezes out a tear by the end.

 

Harry and the Hendersons hits all these marks beautifully in my opinion. It also has a wonderfully warm, big hearted turn from Lithgow (the sort of role he's never had much of a chance to do what with all his snarling creepy villains and off the wall comedic characters), to the point its one of my favorite of his performances.

 

A criminally under-rated family flick these days. I've shown it to my niece and nephew and it still works just as perfectly as when my dad took us to see it on the big screen when I was a boy.

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post #7 of 10
6/7/11 at 7:30am

I shared this story in another thread, but I love telling it...

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HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS is better than its simply-Speilberg-produced legacy implies. Baker's suit is phenomenal and the performances are all just the right mixture of family-friendly-intensity and sweetness. I showed this flick to my daughter a couple years ago (she's 6 now). She was afraid of Harry at first (ET as well), due to the mysterious way he's filmed in the beginning, but by the end, she was in love. When Lithgow smacks Harry in the face to shoo him into the woods (for his own good), my daughter turned to me with tears streaming down her face. SHe buries her head in my chest and weeped for the poor Bigfoot. I felt terrible that a movie I picked out for her brought her to this state, but beamed at the same time. She danced along with movies before and was even frightened a bit as well (Wicked Witch in Oz). But it was the first time she was this moved by a film and felt so much sympathy for a fictional character. Revisiting the movie with her was a great lesson on Spielbergian emotional manipulation. Movie Magic!

She spent the rest of the night telling me that I was the Daddy Harry and she was the Baby Harry.

 

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post #8 of 10
6/14/11 at 4:26am
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I shared this story in another thread, but I love telling it...

 



Aww, that's so sweet!

 

I haven't seen this movie since I was 5 or 6 so I only vaguely remember it but I do remember thinking it was magical and crying a bunch. After reading this thread it's time for a revisit.

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post #9 of 10
6/14/11 at 4:27am
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post

I shared this story in another thread, but I love telling it...

 



Aww, that's so sweet!

 

I haven't seen this movie since I was 5 or 6 so I only vaguely remember it but I do remember thinking it was magical and crying a bunch. After reading this thread it's time for a revisit.

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post #10 of 10
6/14/11 at 5:48am

That is a great story Darkmite I now know what movie we're watching for our Friday Night Movie!  This was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater and I loved it, the whole experience.  Hurry up Friday!

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