Nobody's Fool (1994)
I’m too much of a classic movie buff for my own good. I just can’t accept a movie that starts with Paul Newman asking a woman to run away to Hawaii with him, she laughs him off, and he ends his speech with a dejected, depressed, “Hang in there,” before ending the scene.
In Nobody’s Fool, Paul Newman plays a limping old-timer who drinks and plays cards with his friends, and hits on his buddy’s wife. If someone else was cast in the lead, maybe I could have seen it with a more open mind, but when Jessica Tandy scolds heartthrob Paul Newman for not walking fast enough, it just breaks my heart. If you don’t feel the same way about him, you can try to get through it, but it’s still not very good. It very clearly came from the 90s, which in this case isn’t a good thing. The irredeemable scoundrel friend, the harmless flirting, the unrealistic quips between father and son, the gratuitous Melanie Griffiths nude scene, the no-good, over-the-hill guy who changes his ways for no good reason. . . See what I mean?
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In Nobody’s Fool, Paul Newman plays a limping old-timer who drinks and plays cards with his friends, and hits on his buddy’s wife. If someone else was cast in the lead, maybe I could have seen it with a more open mind, but when Jessica Tandy scolds heartthrob Paul Newman for not walking fast enough, it just breaks my heart. If you don’t feel the same way about him, you can try to get through it, but it’s still not very good. It very clearly came from the 90s, which in this case isn’t a good thing. The irredeemable scoundrel friend, the harmless flirting, the unrealistic quips between father and son, the gratuitous Melanie Griffiths nude scene, the no-good, over-the-hill guy who changes his ways for no good reason. . . See what I mean?
More Paul Newman movies here!
More Bruce Willis movies here!