An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Writing
Hartley's philosophical dialogue somehow works from a garbage man's mouth
Acting
Thomas Jay Ryan's unlikable charisma is genuinely hypnotic
Direction
Static frames that make suburban hell look like Brecht
Director
Hal Hartley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Hartley's 'long island trilogy' that continued with Fay Grim (2006) and Ned Rifle (2014), tracking the Grim family across decades.
Hartley reportedly wrote Henry Fool after his own brief fame faded, making it a bitter self-portrait of the artist as middle-aged obscurity.
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