Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Bruce Willis, Margo Martindale, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Newman, Catherine Dent, Alice Drummond, Angela Pietropinto, Angelica Page, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Melanie Griffith, Philip Bosco, Gerry Robert Byrne, Josef Sommer, Marcus Powell, Dylan Walsh, Anibal O. Lleras, Jay Patterson, Elizabeth Wilson, Richard Mawe, Carl J. Matusovich, Jessica Tandy, Gene Saks, Alexander Goodwin, Drenda Spohnholtz, Jerry Mayer, Joe Paparone, Shannah Laumeister, John Leighton, Kenneth Frawley, Frank W. Inness, Page Johnson, William Raymond Calhoun, Bob Heitman
Trailer
Reviews
100
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.
100
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. Because Benton knows that life can best be found in a silent expression, a camouflaged turn of a phrase, and in the simple acts of compassion that make the next day worth waking up for.
91
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
90
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.
88
The story, written by Benton from the novel by Richard Russo, unfolds according to its own logic. It has the patience to listen to silences. Above all, it benefits from the confidence of Newman's performance. He is not hammering the points home, not marching from one big scene to another, but simply living on the screen.
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