Sad Sack
Sad Sack
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Mixing a heist caper with a backstage romantic comedy, Henrys Crime stars Keanu Reeves as Henry, a sad-sack schlub who works as a toll booth collector, and his wife (Judy Greer) is thinking of kids but after some friends needing a lift to a softball game rush out of the car to rob a bank instead, hes sent to prison for three years. Henrys life is so stifling, so ill-formed, that it is supposed to seem like a good idea for him to go to prison instead of protesting he didnt do anything. This is the first time we bristle at Sasha Gervasi and David N. Whites screenplay we can glimpse how things are bad for our hero, but the idea theyre worse than Federal time is a bit silly. And much of the film rolls along in that wheezy, phony way; you wish anyone on either side of the camera had a cup of coffee and then the energy to throw out weak scenes and flawed motivations while picking up the pace.
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Released from prison and never naming the friends who got him in his jam Henry not only becomes obsessed with actually robbing the bank he was arrested in front of, but enlists his old cell-mate Max (James Caan) to help him: If I did the time .. I might as well do the crime. Henrys plan involves a theater across the way with a Prohibition-era tunnel that runs to the bank a theater where the actress Julie (Vera Farmiga), who met Henry by chance as he was casing the bank, is about to play the female lead in a production of The Cherry Orchard.
Directed by Malcom Venville, whose 44 Inch Chest featured a shouty, splenetic sweaty all-star cast of British blokes, Henrys Crime is a more lazy, poky affair it dawdles when you want it to jump, skips when you want it to sizzle. If Venville wanted to make a crime film, he needed to go darker and starker; if he were making a caper comedy, he needed to go lighter and brighter. Instead, Henry and his crew work their plan under dour steel-grey Buffalo skies and plod their way through three twists anyone whos seen more than a fistful of movies in their life can predict.
Reeves brings his usual handsome, halting tentativeness to the part, briefly showing life when Max determines the best way to get the needed level of access to the tunnel is for Henry to step into the lead role of the production and the tunnel-adjacent dressing room that goes with it. Working opposite Julie as their affection turns to romance and discovering life upon the stage, will Henry choose the possibility of joy over dreams of vengeance?
And if youre rolling your eyes at the tired, clich phrasing of that question, imagine what youll do as it plays out, even more tired and clich, on-screen. Farmiga is, as ever, welcome as Warren Zevon said, shes good around the eyes, human and sexy in a way we dont often get to see on the big screen. Caan is cagey as ever; his lifer conman, like Henry, appreciates their plot not necessarily as a source of income but, rather, as a source of purpose.
Henrys Crime is weighed down by plodding, lead-footed literalism and a couple of metaphors so obvious theyd get you hurled out of a freshman creative writing class. The soundtracks singles by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Budos Band and other Dap-Tone records artists gives the film a little second-hand swagger and funk, but not enough to make for its lazy pace and rote structure. The biggest crime here isnt on-screen; rather, its in the theater, where Venvill and his cast perpetrate the theft of your time without so much as a moment of excitement or charm left in its place.
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what does it mean "Sad Sack"?
for example if someone says you are just a sad sack..what this means?
and why use term "Sack"??
where , how , when this came from?
and how often used?
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sack of what? ...lol
or what was this meant to refer to?
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The Sad Sack is a comic strip character developed by a sargeant during WWII. Sad Sack was an inept Army private going through military life who meant well but who constantly made error upon error.
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