Heavy (1996)
TOMATOMETER
AUDIENCE SCORE
Critic Consensus: With Pruitt Taylor Vince's naturalistic performance and sympathetic direction from James Mangold, Heavy soars as an affecting exploration of loneliness.
Movie Info
Watch it now
Cast
as Callie
as Dolly
as Delores
as Leo
as Jeff
as Victor
as Grey Man in Hospital
as Darlene
as Donna
as Jean
as Tony
as Orderly
as Nurse
as Gas Man
as Sonny
Critic Reviews for Heavy
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (4)
A small, quiet miracle of a movie in which tenderness, compassion and insight combine to create a tension that yields a quality of perception that's almost painful to experience.
Mangold captures the nuances of life perfectly, and, by never cheapening his vision through facile resolutions, he fashions a memorable cinematic portrait.
Even at 80 minutes, Heavy would have been weighted with redundancies. So you can imagine what happened on the way to making it 105 minutes long.
You've been in places like this. You linger over a second cup of coffee and people-watch, trying to guess the secrets of the sad-eyed waitress and the drunk at the bar and the pizza cook who looks like he's serving a sentence.
The performances are all exquisitely drawn portraits, restrained (even Shelley Winters) and gentle.
Mangold's sympathy is genuine and his refusal to mock or condescend to his characters -- indeed, that may be the point of the film -- is a pleasure.
Audience Reviews for Heavy
Evan Dando as the boyfriend does all the sensitive-right things but is phony-wrong for her; not sure if the movie is like him; good lighting & music
Super Reviewer
I don't really like Liv Tyler and Pruitt Taylor Vince makes me shudder, so I found very little to like about this movie. There was absolutely nothing special about it. I almost don't even remember watching it, it was so nondescript. Instead of watching this, just stare at a blank wall and invent a movie in your head.
Super Reviewer
Heavy Quotes
There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.