Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

J Bur I don't understand the low star count (6.1 as of this review). This is a good movie with a good story, good acting, nice people, and what should have been a breakthrough performance for Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Talia, who lit up the screen with her charisma and effervescent smile. (Maybe it was. She's been busy since this movie.) Tom Hanks, Wilmer Valderrama, Bryan Cranston, Rita Wilson, and Julia Roberts are all excellent too. If you want murder, explosions, criminals, and cruelty look elsewhere. If you want a pleasant, fun, enjoyable movie with likable characters with redeeming qualities with whom you can identify and for whom you can root, this is it.

goldbug70 This is a mediocre, but not unpleasant or irritating movie. The performances are all right, but I have seen these two before doing the same things -- Julia flashing those teeth, Tom furrowing his brow -- and in one case even together (Charlie Wilson's War). I checked the spoilers box because the penalty is so draconian for a disagreement about what is and what is not a spoiler. In fact, no spoiler is possible for this picture whose outcome can be guessed when its cast credits are read. The reason I am concerned about spoiler alerts is that my comment here about this otherwise unremarkable movie involves its ending or the first of its two ending. I say "two endings" because this movie has at its end one of the worst editing failures I have ever seen. Three minutes or so before the actual ending, three minutes of a scene that has "deleted scene" written all over it -- even the actors seem not to know what to do with it -- is a scene where the protagonists, although still able to see each other, are at some distance from each other displaying facial expressions and glances that establish their future. This is where this movie truly ends both because it is a perfect closing scene in and of itself and it is an homage to one of the finest, most delicate, both subtle and obvious final scenes any movie ever had, a movie that was most deservedly the best picture of 1946. Not only is the scene here substantively the same as the one there, but even in each case is a certain restraint appropriate because one of the two enthralled is still married. Both are endings about beginnings and futures.I don't understand how director Hanks who must know the 1946 movie failed to see that his 2011 movie ended exactly as the 1946 movie had, when the characters saw the future.

Maria Trim Should be called the Awakening of Larry Crowne.When i got made redundant i was 48 years old been working for several years as an engineer buyer. I decided to go back to college in the UK, and I actually learnt all about Microsoft to a high level, and became a teacher in further education as I passed all my exams for that. So this movie and me had something in common. Larry looses his job, and goes back to college. Sounds exciting NOT which is a shame as there is so much more about this movie. Friendship made, love, awakening, being part of a team, pushing oneself, and not being scared to try new things. This film had a brilliant cast not only Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts, but Grace Gummer, Dean Tainot, George Takai , Taraji P. Henson, and others. Directed by Tom Hanks who did a great job. I LOVED IT. It hooked me from the beginning to the end, i wanted more. A gentle love story, with comedy, a good story line and nicely paced and so good not to be exposed to raunchy sex scenes which seem to be the norm now as though people have to watch constant sex scenes to enjoy a movie. WRONG there are still a lot of us, who just want to enjoy a little romance that leaves us feeling good. The 98 minutes flew by, and i will certainly put this one on my repeat list. If you just want to enjoy good actors in a light comedy romance then you cant go wrong with this. Try it, you wont be disappointed.

studioAT After the success of 'That Thing You Do' you can see why Tom Hanks was keen to give the acting/writing/directing in a project another go.Sadly Larry Crowne is not a good film. The premise is good, and certainly topical but it's let down by a paper thin plot and weak characterisation.Tom Hanks to his credit does his normal everyman trick very well and his relationship with Julia Roberts character is strong,but everything else...oh dear. Even the appearance of Cedric The Entertainer doesn't add much to a film that plods along despite it's relatively short running time.The sad thing is that this film had potential, but sadly the female characters are so 2D that we never really feel for them. And in a romcom if we don't root for both parties the game is really up.