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Release Date: 10 July, 2001 Retail Price: $9.94 OUR Price: $6.47 You SAVE: $3.47! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
The Hotel New Hampshire Reviews
Jodie in Transition
Following the success of The World According to Garp, another offbeat John Irving novel was filmed. The Hotel New Hampshire is about another offbeat family. This time the Berry's are examined. Father - Winn and Mother - Betty (Beau Bridges and Lisa Banes) met while working at the Hotel New Hampshire. The had five children - Frank (Paul McCrane), Franny (Jodie Foster), Johnny (Rob Lowe), Lilly (Jennie Dundas) and Egg (a very young Seth Green).
Win works as a teacher at Dairy private school where his father, Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley), is the coach. But Win and Betty want to recapture their youth and open a hotel (and name it after the hotel where they met.) They buy an abandoned girls school near Dairy school. They convert it and open it. Just as they are all misfits, their clientele are also misfits. They get an invitation to open another hotel in Vienna. And they do the same.
This film is not about story, it is about characters. This film serves you a wide variety of characters from the lovely Anita Morris as the oversexed waitress to Natasha Kinski as a woman who hides in a bear suit. And of course, Wallace Shawn as Freud.
Each of the four stars, Foster, Lowe, Bridges and Kinski, had their careers in transition. They were looking for the breakout hit to take their career to the next level. This film was widely admired but not a box office smash. Foster would only have to wait a couple of years (The Accused). Lowe would have to wait fourteen years to achieve success in The West Wing. Bridges would become the king of the cable movies.
The film is written and directed by Tony Richardson (look for his daughter Joely Richardson in a bit role at the beginning of the film).
WARNING: This film has scenes of abuse, rape and incest. So, this may not be suitable for young children.
DVD EXTRAS: None
not so good
I absolutely loved the John Irving book that this was based upon. Very quirky (especially for it's time), hilariously funny, and the characters he created were magnificent. In my opinion however, the movie was uninteresting and only mildly funny. Not many movies do justice to the books they've been based upon, for many reasons. This is no excuse for Hotel New Hampshire however. Irving's "World according to Garp" was a superb book (similar in length and complexity to Hotel NH), and was made into a very good movie. I'd recommend checking out that one instead if you want to see a John Irving novel of this period on film.
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