ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW: Larry Crowne
LARRY CROWNE-- 4 STARS Official Website Internet Movie Database This past decade (and maybe this next one too) is likely going to go down in American history as the years of "tough economic times," an often-used and heavily quoted saying. A great many Americans (this school teacher blogger included) have had or are still in cycles of employment or housing turmoil. Jobs have been hard to find and hard to hold onto and collapsing housing values and loans dominate the financial news. Though movies themselves are a luxury many people have cut back on in their lives, more and more of them, like last winter's Company Men and the new film opening Friday, Larry Crowne , are starting to highlight human stories of these (there it is) "tough economic times" in an attempt to lift our chins up and put smiles on our faces. Larry Crowne , Tom Hanks's first foray into feature film directing since 1996's That Thing You Do , succeeds in those two things. It's a c...