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Nobody's Fool

1994

Robert Benton

Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith ...

6.5

4,554

Comedy. Drama Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Nobody's Fool functions mostly as a character study, but it's also Benton's elegy to America's endangered small towns. It's a gem."	POS
United States	Jeff Shannon Seattle Times	"In Benton's able hands this authentic, engagingly humane movie evolves into a casual treasure of stolen moments, where nothing much happens and yet everything happens"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Nobody's Fool is so eloquently straightforward, it practically sings to the soul."	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Nobody’s Fool shines with intelligence and grace and the natural light of fine moviemaking. Like a shot of superior whiskey, it’s a sharp comfort in the grayness of winter"	POS
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"If Nobody's Fool is often heartbreaking in its sense of loss, it is also hopeful in the strength of its emotions and the sheer beauty of its performances."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Benton's character-driven film is sprinkled with small pleasures; the dramatic developments here don't take place in the noisy, calamitous manner that is customary these days."	POS

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