The film tells about Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage. Homer is returned twice by foster parents; his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him.
3 September 1984, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1950, Midland, Texas, USA
18 November 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK
2 March 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
6 April 1969, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
5 February 1934, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12 July 1991, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
2 January 1968, Kingston, Jamaica
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
26 November 1982, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
23 January 1955, Manhattan, New York, USA
28 September 1992, Houston, Texas, USA
16 March 1950, London, Ontario, Canada
March1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
23 June 1970, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 May 1967, Mandeville, Jamaica
December 28, 2010
Thought-provoking movie for teens and up.
June 24, 2006
Hallström's humanism is possibly a little low key and romantic given such tough themes as abortion and incest.
June 18, 2002
[It] is a fable that turns into a 1940s New England variation on Charles Dickens. It is also one dickens of an American movie.
May 30, 2008
Hallstrom's film could have used more dramatic muscle but is nonetheless a touching, old-fashioned charmer that ultimately satisfies.
January 01, 2000
Perceived as too soft by some and too weird and kinky by even more.
June 22, 2007
A softer, kinder version of John Irving's book, which was edgier and more critical, though you can't blame the filmmakers since Irving himself adapted his novel.
April 09, 2005
There's quality here and that's a real good thing.
July 14, 2007
A bouillabaisse of all the best soap opera elements - orphans, abortion, debilitating injuries and, of course, death.
July 30, 2007
Irving's clean, economical dialogue and Hallstrom's beautifully morose direction cut the fat off of the cliches.
June 26, 2004
Not since The World According to Garp has a movie based on a John Irving novel captured the wry realism of the author's work.
April 27, 2007
Mr. Irving remains a disturbingly facile spinner of yarns in which the most sordid facts of life are glossed over into comfortably didactic homilies about the innate goodness of people. Yet, I was somehow moved...
January 01, 2000
Misses Irving's main gifts, despite his own best scriptwriting intentions.
