HENRY FOOL [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Acclaimed writer/director Hal Hartley’s (Amateur, Flirt) HENRY FOOL is a Faustian black comedy that will leave you screaming with laughter at its wild mix of vulgarity, antic humor and deeply-felt emotion Intense, nerdy young garbage man Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) sulks through a sexless, humiliating lower-class existence. He shares a house in Queens New York with his clinically depressed mother Mary (Maria Porter) and sarcastic, promiscuous sister Fay (Parker Posey). Into their mundane existence comes Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), a freewheeling, depraved faux intellectual and writer who inspires the repressed Simon to come out of his shell by writing a book-length poem. He also begins an affair with Fay, the two making love at the most awkwardly inappropriate moments. At Henry’s goading, Simon timidly peddles his manuscript to an unscrupulous publisher, setting in motion an unforeseen chain of events both tragic and hilarious.
• Cast: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Aiken, Miho Nikaido, Gene Ruffini, Nicholas Hope, Diana Ruppe, Veanne Cox, Jan Leslie Harding, Chaylee Worrall, Christy Carlson Romano, Chuck Montgomery, Melanie Vesey, Denise Morgan, Jill Morley, Paul Boocock, David Latham, Marissa Chibas, Julie Anderson, Reggie Harris, Don Creech, Camille Paglia, Maraya Chase, Shoshana Ami, Karen DiConcetto, Tiffany Sampson, Rachel Miner, Paul Lazar, Gretchen Krich, Valorie Hubbard, Dave Simonds, Fay Ann Lee, Paul Greco, Blake Willett, Raymond Cassar, Katreen Hardt, Merritt Nelson, Paul Albe, Vivian Bang, Brandon Boey, Claire Ritchie, Herbie Duarte, Toy Connor, Hal Hartley
• Director: Hal Hartley
• Runtime: 2:18
• Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie