Synopsis
Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands.
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Cast
- Naomi WattsSusan Carpenter
- Jaeden MartellHenry Carpenter
- Jacob TremblayPeter Carpenter
- Sarah SilvermanSheila
- Maddie ZieglerChristina Sickleman
- Lee PaceDr. David Daniels
- Dean NorrisGlenn Sickleman
- Bobby MoynihanJohn
- Tonya PinkinsPrincipal Wilder
- Geraldine HughesMrs. Evans
Recommandations
- 50
IndieWire
It’s intermittently funny, mopey, and tense, sometimes totally off-base but certainly ambitious in its approach. - 50
Movie Nation
The only way to appreciate The Book of Henry is by treating it as the movie equivalent of a summer read, a beach book that tries to pack in the full breadth of human experience into a few too many pages. - 42
The Film Stage
Watching The Book of Henry feels like being gaslit. - 42
The Playlist
The entire thing feels forced and hollow, less an authentic expression of the human experience and more a gee-whiz exercise in cleverness, slathered in a healthy coat of multiplex-friendly weirdness. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The preposterousness of Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay isn't enough to throw star Naomi Watts off her game, and the actor's sincere performance may suffice to keep a segment of the family-film demographic on board, barely. - 40
TheWrap
The really sad thing is that this is a movie with some intriguing characters that has some real comic and dramatic potential, but all this gets lost in increasingly silly plot mechanics. - 38
Boston Globe
The plot proceeds from the charming to the manipulative to the shameless to the demented in gentle steps that may lull some audiences the way a frog can be boiled to death by degrees. - 30
Variety
The film’s muted yet still rather flamboyant terribleness derives from the fact that it seems to be juggling three or four borderline schlock genres at once.
