Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 8
Predictable but moving, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is an understated and melancholic drama that gets plenty of mileage out of an outstanding cast that includes Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, and Sandra Bullock.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 4
Predictable but moving, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is an understated and melancholic drama that gets plenty of mileage out of an outstanding cast that includes Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, and Sandra Bullock.
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Movie Info
Richard Harris and Robert Duvall star in this low-key drama concerning a hard-drinking former sea captain (Richard Harris) who befriends a shy retired barber (Robert Duvall). Though their polar-opposite personalities find the relationship slow going at first, roguish Frank (Harris) and gentle Walter (Duvall) soon develop a close friendship as they pass the days with conversation. As death looms near and their pasts seem to evaporate into the air with the passing of each day, the lonely souls
Jun 1, 1994 Wide
Jul 27, 1994
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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Robert Duvall
Walt -
Richard Harris
Frank -
Shirley MacLaine
Helen -
Sandra Bullock
Elaine -
Micole Mercurio
Bernice -
Marty Belafsky
Ned Ryan -
Piper Laurie
Georgia -
Ed Amatrudo
Henry's Dad -
Ilse Earl
Cinema Cashier -
William Marquez
Carl Burney -
Jodie Wilson
Nurse -
Harold Bergman
Sleeper -
Chick Bernhardt
1st Stunt Driver -
Richard Jasen
3rd Baseman -
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Doris Carey Ferguson
Mom in Park -
Ron Russell
2nd Stunt Driver
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All Critics (21) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (8) | DVD (2)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies, and the movie's sympathy for them eventually becomes patronizing.
Randa Haines' sappy, rather dull melodrama about the friendship between two eccentric old men is mostly a showcase for its stars, Robert Duvall and Richard Harris.
There aren't really any surprises, but it's a delight to see a movie which idles away without anything more pressing on its mind than people.
Top CriticInstead of simply assuming that the old have interesting lives, the film never stops congratulating itself for being daring enough to focus on them.
The movie is essentially about the close observation of behavior. Like some of Hemingway's stories, the real action is all implied. The characters trade small talk, and we sense that larger issues are lurking beneath their cheerfulness.
An endearing buddy movie for the senior crowd.
Offers little in the way of narrative drive or plot conflict, and what does happen is far from surprising. MacLaine and Piper Laurie are more or less wasted in supporting roles, and pretty Sandra Bullock is given almost nothing to do.
This is a film of two superlative performances from Richard Harris and Robert Duvall, who play an odd couple drawn together by their common loneliness as they become friends in the winter of their lives
A deeply moving and wonderfully acted film about loneliness and friendship. This is one to treasure.
A slow-paced and sentimental film, but still a pleasure to watch as the two brilliant and dignified leads play off each other so well.
Funny, touching, understated. Melancholy, bittersweet, lovely.
Duvall and Harris are as touching, as they are mezmerising.
Portrays the salutary ways in which two very dissimiliar elders enrich each other's lives.
It's another right of passage movie that pinballs off of clichés as though that is a way to achieve meaning.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is melodramatic, and its pacing is rather slow, but it is also filled with fine acting and quirky but believable relationships, and ultimately proves quite satisfying.
Audience Reviews for Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
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