The Hotel New Hampshire | | Cast : | Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster | | Director : | Tony Richardson | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 09, 1984 | | DVD Released Date : | July 10, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | JUST A REALLY BAD MOVIE | Content
 | I would have given this movie a 0 star rating, if the rating system went that low.
This is one of the worst movies I have ever watched, up there with Millers Crossing, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost In Translation, and lets not forget the Thin Red Line.
This is a group of movies that you couldn't give me for free. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 04, 2005 | | Summary | State of grace, State of Maine, State of mind | Content
| I wanted to comment a bit further on slickinafix's remarks that you don't have to read the book to understand the movie. The book takes you down several different paths that the movie doesn't go-but watching the movie gives you more feelings for the characters, their passions and discoveries than the book can. Especially in the case of Win, the father and his father, Iowa Bob, the original owner of the family bear, State of Maine-there are things done in the movie that can't really be visualised in the book. Also, the Hotel Manager is more visually interesting. The Hotel New Hampshire is the only John Irving book or movie that I have read or seen, alhtough I am very much looking forward to The Cider House Rules.
The book left me with a slight feeling of despair-though I saw the movie twenty years ago, it gave me more of a feeling of hope for the Berry's, in a somewhat Scarlett O'Hara, "I'll think about that tomorrow" fashion. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 01, 2004 | | Summary | Good! | Content
| This is a good movie, but as is many times true, the book is better than the film. The acting is very good, but we miss some of Irving when the movie takes short cuts.
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| Rating | | | Date | February 19, 2004 | | Summary | Crowded Hotel | Content
| Based on author John Irving's story about the ecletic Berry family, The Hotel New Hampshire, may boast a star studded ensemble and have a steady hand behind the camera, yet, the film isn't as good as the sum of its parts at times. Patriarch Win Berry (Beau Bridges) has an obsession with hotels, which leads to the purchase of a delapidated New England monastary, to be transformed into a hotel. This leads to the coming together of the entire Berry clan. The family's eldest son John (Rob Lowe), foul mouthed Franny (Jodie Foster), Frank the dwarf (Paul McCrane) Egg-the youngest son (Seth Green), Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley) Win's Dad are just some of those who put their two cents in. Soon the brood is invited by a family friend (Wallace Shawn) to take over another hotel in Vienna. Upon arrival, the get more then they bargained for. I never read the book so I can only guess as to how it compares to the film. The movie, though watchable thanks to its cast, can at times seem like a jigsaw puzzle--with some pieces missing. The story as told through the eyes of Lowe's character, has great and "darkly" funny moments, with some satire thrown in. But the film can also be quite disjointed at times--perhaps so that the writer/director Tony Richarson could adapt the story for the film. The cast does their best and gives solid peformances, despite some of the scripts faults. There's enough subplots in The Hotel New Hampshire to fill two movies. The DVD doesn't have any extras on it. That is to say, save of course, for the theatrical trailer. I thought the film was good--but had Richardson reworked the script a bit--it could have been much better. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 02, 2004 | | Summary | Black-humored, subtle, inteligent, explicit - fun. | Content
| "The Hotel New Hampshire" is, indeed, not "very easy". If you're into "American Pie" or something, it's likely not to work for you. It's fast, subtile, black humor, surrealistic sometimes, and there's no "audience laugher" to know when you're supposed to laugh - and that's probably why people don't like (or understand) it. It can take more than one watch to get it all, and it sure deserves it. The book's no requirement at all, like some of the obtuse reviewers above are arguing. In fact, i only know of Irving's existence from hearabouts - and still HNH was a masterpiece that made me laugh to tears. The flatulent dog named Sorrow. The (quick) way people die. Incest, clowns, rape, and Kinski wearing a bear suit. Do you want more to life than this? and there is. Like one of the reviews i've read before, in this film the joke isn't assigned, all weird is put as just normal and if you don't have the hability to laugh at the bizarre on normal things you'll maybe find this movie a bored, puzzling experience. It's ironical, thought, to think that maybe it was made to be this little hermetic and still so little people can get it. This world is ruined. |
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