The Hotel New Hampshire

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Dave S The Hotel New Hampshire serves as proof that not all great novels translate into great movies. While John Irving’s novel, a story of both heartbreak and joy, works on virtually every level imaginable, the film adaptation is an absolute mess. Despite an impressive cast (Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, etc), a handful of truly poignant moments, and plenty of foreshadowing and symbolism, it is a frustrating viewing experience. Much of the dialogue is downright embarrassing, scenarios that work in the book feel absurd and pointless on the screen, and many of the secondary performances are horrible, but what really kills the movie is its schizophrenic vibe. While the novel was able to balance the comedy and drama, the opposite is true of the film, where the humor crushes the dramatic impact and the drama sucks the laughs out of the comedy. Bottom line? Read to book and pass on the movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/01/24 Full Review Audience Member What happens at this hotel? Anything Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Wilford Brimley, Beau Bridges based on the book by John Irving It focuses on a family in the 1950s 5 children and their parents called the Berrys They open a hotel near a pep school in New Hampshire The most distressing thing though is that the oldest son John confesses he's in love with Franny...his sister of all things These people go through all kinds of changes and experiences whether it's sex, partying, running a business etc. The filmmakers even so much as bring someone dressed as a bear adding to the kooky nature There's some goofy moments, disturbing ones, and some over the top editing Tonally this was all over the place and the translation to the screen is a bit rocky so it might fail to capture what made the novel so full of essence Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/09/24 Full Review Luciano B This movie isn't outright awful, but it's so tonally inconsistent and weirdly paced that I found it hard to really get invested in. One moment there's something really serious and dramatic, then the next it's almost cartoonish in how it's filmed and portrayed. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/05/22 Full Review steve d There isn't enough story here to engage. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This is some kind of bizarre coming of age-slapstick-romantic-drama-comedy-absurdist movie with a twist of incest. If you put a newspaper into a blender then mixed that into papier mache and sculpted a life-like banana then fed that banana to a cow then waited until the cow pooped out the papier mache banana then used that dung for fertilizer to grow a crop of tomatoes... the bugs that came to eat those tomatoes would write a better movie than this. 10/10 purely because what the ffff did I just watch. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I had never watched the movie completely before now. This was definitely something else... Never even noticed Matthew Modine before re-watching now that I am older. This truly is an intriguing film, with a very good cast. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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