REVIEW: Larry Crowne Gives Middle-Aged People ? and Actors ? a Bad Name

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I note with a shiver that, as a person over 40 who has frequently expressed a desire to see fewer mainstream movies based on comic books and more roles for actors over, oh, age 25, I’m the target audience for Larry Crowne.

Please, shoot me now.

Actually, Larry Crowne does seem to be based on a comic book, or at least a ’70s romance-comic premise. Tom Hanks — who also directed and co-wrote the movie — stars as the title character, the loyal, hardworking employee of a Tarmart/Walget-style big-box store who loses his job when the higher-ups inform him that, thanks to his lack of a college degree, there’s nowhere in the company they can possibly put him. He enrolls in the local community college — a character later refers to it disdainfully as Vassar of the Valley, though I wouldn’t degrade the Valley quite that much — which changes his life, not least because it’s there he encounters a leggy teacher with a crazy-wide smile who happens to look a lot like Julia Roberts.

Because, of course, it is Julia Roberts, and her character’s name is Mercedes Tainot, or, to her students, Ms. Tay-no. “Not Tie-knot,” she informs them authoritatively on the first day of the public-speaking class she teaches, though the correct pronunciation of her name is pretty much all she seems to care about. It seems Ms. Tie-knot is in a rut. She doesn’t care about her classes, her students, or pretty much anything, and she’s married to a loser…

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