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Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

slightlymad22 I'm amazed at some of the negative reviews here, I really liked this movie.Plot In A Paragraph: Henry Turner (a brilliant Harrison Ford) is a despicable and ruthless lawyer whose life is turned upside down when one night whilst out buying some cigarettes, he is shot in the head during a robbery. Luckily, he survives the injury with significant brain damage and must re-learn how to speak, walk, and function normally. He has also lost most of the memory of his personal life, and must adjust to life with the family that he does not remember. To the surprise of his wife and daughter, Henry becomes a kind, loving and affectionate man.Bill Nunn is a stand out performer as Bradley, Henry's Physical Therapist, Annette Bening is great as Henry's wife, and Mikki Allen is also great as his daughter Rachel, John Leguizamo pops up too as the liquor store gun man. But this movie is all abut Harrison Ford he is the heart and core of the movie. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention over the years

leplatypus The movie is rather well directed, well scored, well played with a special mention for the daughter and the trainer but the story is just unrealistic. I know it has been written by mister Abrams (who does a cameo) but the story he wants us to believe has nothing to do with the real life. As too many Hollywood desk writers, the characters have no connection with the audience. Here, it's not the courageous cop or the brave doctor but the well-known brilliant and successful lawyer! We should tell those writers that there are thousand jobs outside to pick to tell a story! With such a dumb choice, the emotion is clearly washed up as Harrison gets the best doctor, the best clinic, the best house, the best school for the daughter, the best hotel and so on… His rebuilding as a new man is a good idea but considering the starting point, I really don't care after. About Harrison, he is always this formidable soft-spoken guy who is right and doesn't let go! But as I don't like to watch him play a bad guy, I don't like more to see him suffer. Finally, I have strong reservations before watching it and after watching it, it confirms that I shouldn't have picked it up!

Geoffrey DeLeons Along with Lorenzo's Oil, My Life and First Sight, Regarding Henry is one of my favorite movies with a medical theme. In all of these films, the ill person triumphs in one way or another, and in Regarding Henry, a sense of ethics and restructuring of Henry's values takes place after his is critically wounded by a gun. Personality changes, whether complete or partial, often happen after severe trauma, and sometimes, it is for-the-better.Harrison Ford is not my favorite actor, but he does a respectable job in Regarding Henry, playing the part of a man in rehabilitation. Stanley Swerdlow does a great job as a physical therapist.My only concern about the movie is that I wish Henry's wife, Sarah (played by Annette Bening) had somehow or in her own ways paralleled Henry's evolutionary change-of-heart during the recuperation process.This would have explained just why a person who married a high-power corporate attorney (and who had steeled her heart enough to send her only child away to a snooty boarding school against her wishes) was perfectly fine with staying married to a brain-damaged, partially disabled man. I just found that that aspect of the movie deserved some treatment and fleshing-out.

Rich Wright If this film teaches us anything its that we should all get brain injuries so we can be more thoughtful, happy people. Take Henry for instance: One minute he's a ruthless lawyer with no morals, alienated from his wife and daughter... Then, when he's shot and brain damaged in a hit-and-run newsagent raid, and after his (surprisingly quick) rehabilitation, he transforms into a far more pleasant, laid-back kinda guy. EVERYONE says they prefer the new him... apart from the nasty attorney snobs he used to call friends, and he quickly realises he can never return to his old ways. But, who cares? He seems more content than ever. In fact, I was so taken aback by his new found blissfulness after his devastating injuries, it got me thinking... Pass me that hammer will ya? *BONK*Well, that didn't work... It just meant I had to take two aspirin. YOU LIED TO ME, HAN SOLO!! Seriously though... if being on cloud nine means being reduced to a former shell of yourself, I'll pass thanks. And that's the problem here... Everything, from Henry's too-speedy recovery, to his discovered appreciation of what matters to him in life seems too calculated, too designed in the fabric of the movie. We're not really looking at a motion picture about a man recuperating after a massive head trauma, it's more about a yuppy finding out that life isn't about dinner parties and expensive furniture. A nice thought, but Frank Capra was doing this sort of thing 50 years ago with slightly more panache.Don't get me wrong, though. There's plenty to admire here, from Harrison Ford's affecting performance, the chemistry he has with a luminous Annette Bening and a script which efficiently involves us in the main character's plight from the get-go. It's just that everything is too simply dealt with considering how difficult the central premise should be, and the choice between being a depressed workaholic and a happy-go-lucky family man... Well, there's no choice at all, is there? In other words, a little more complexity and drama would have been nice. It's not bad. But it COULD have been something special... 6/10