Synopsis
At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
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Cast
- Michael SheenDr. Slavkin O'Hara
- Toni CollettePatricia Herman
- Jason SpevackHenry James Herman
- Samantha WeinsteinAudrey O'Hara
- Melyssa AdeKindergarten Teacher
- Oprah WinfreyOprah
- Frank MooreStan Herman
- Paul BraunsteinDr. Gunther Flowers
- Hannah BrigdenYoung Patricia Herman
- Sarah OrensteinMother Herman
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
Too deliberately eccentric to attain quite the level of wigginess it aspires to, Jesus Henry Christ does feature some standout performances and a refreshingly unconventional approach to telling its slight story. - 70
Los Angeles Times
This time out Lee looks to bake a touch of twee-ness into the film in the hopes of keeping things light, though more often than not, the film's flourishes come off as Wes Anderson-lite. - 60
Village Voice
Making their screen debuts, young Spevack and Weinstein give the film's most natural performances and provide its little bit of warmth, but it seems time to petition Collette, a truly gifted actress, to take a long hiatus from playing bitter single moms. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Amusing but scattered and unconvincing comedy. - 50
NPR
Henry can finish a college application test in two minutes, yet Jesus Henry Christ doesn't know what to do with 90. - 50
The New York Times
Whatever it intends, Jesus Henry Christ is not especially funny. There are witticisms galore in both the thematically recurrent imagery and the dialogue, but very few qualify as jokes, and any laughter is hard to come by. Willfully zany would be a more apt description. - 50
New York Post
Even for a surreal black comedy, Jesus Henry Christ requires massive suspension of disbelief. - 20
Time Out
Why anyone would want to spend time with a foursome whose bathetic misery is, like the overly mannered visuals of writer-director Dennis Lee (Fireflies in the Garden), defined by such insufferable quirkiness is anyone's guess.
