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An Insignificant Harvey (2011) is a English movie. Jeff Kopas has directed this movie. Jordan Prentice,Kristin Adams,Steven McCarthy,Art Hindle are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. An Insignificant Harvey (2011) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Harvey Lippe' works as a janitor at a small ski resort in the peculiar Northern community of WhiteFox. Standing three feet four inches and abandoned at an orphanage as a child, he has grown up angry and miserable. Now in his early twenties he lives like a hermit in a small trailer, his only friend being Lucas Harold, the town drug dealer. Lucas attended the orphanage for several months before being adopted and subsequently moved to several fosters homes. He is rough around the edges, but has a big heart and a perspective few people give home credit for. Every evening Harvey walks the same route from his trailer, several miles through farmer's fields and hillside forest to get to work. But on this day he has a run in with a stray husky, which he at first thinks is a wolf. She follows him and that night he reluctantly allows her inside his trailer. Through her he meets Dakota Dixon, a dancer at a bizarre local strip joint. Dakota, Lucas, and Inca (as Harvey names her) develop into ...
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An Insignificant Harvey (2011) Reviews
A Unexpected Stand Out
The film "An Insignificant Harvey" is a thought provoking twisted tale, with a positive look on a unconventional story. This film was as "indie" as I was hoping, and surprisingly had quite a lot of comedic undertones. Found myself laughing quite a lot. The acting was impeccable. I am taking my view on "little people" actors as a wonderful change as a leading man in a film. I am captivated when the vulnerabilities of people are so well understood and portrayed, this film did just that. With out making everything "perfect" in the end it was real in the end. I have seen this film 3 times and enjoyed it even more every time I watched it. If you are sick of the cookie cutter"romantic comedies" and over emotional "Dear John" movies then this is right up your ally something totally different and surprising. This film made the top of my list.
Enjoyable, heartfelt film that stuck with me for days
Yes, this is an indie film with very little money to pour into production values, but what it lacks in technical proficiency, it makes up for with heart. Jordan Prentice held my attention for every second of his screen time. He delivered a very human character, complete with emotional vulnerabilities, flaws, hopes, and life choices, and all played with surprising subtlety and warmth. Kristin Adams also turned in a quiet and playful role as the love interest. Once again, her character was believable and real. Kudos to director Jeff Kopas for evoking such natural deliveries from his cast. Being filmed in Canada's cottage country, I could almost feel the cold nights in the airstream trailer. But the quaint Blue Mountain Village, nestled among ski hills, made for some very attractive and golden daytime locations. The supporting cast were good at supporting the lead and the story. Although the ending (I won't spoil it) left me a little baffled with its abruptness and lack of explanation, it also felt very real. Life often doesn't provide neat explanations for people's actions, nor does it resolve in a tidy climax. What really struck me as a sign of a good film was that I kept thinking about the characters and the mood of the film for days. For me, that's a sign of a well-told story when it lasts longer than an hour after I've watched it. This film is for viewers who want to think and feel for themselves, so if you're looking for pure escape and spoon-fed storytelling, try the latest rom-com form Hollywood. But if you want to spend 80 minutes exploring the simple lives of some people you could easily meet at the nearest small-town ski lodge, check out An Insignificant Harvey. NOTE: The behind-the-scenes featurettes on the DVD are very well done, engaging, insightful, and fun.
A small-budget, insignificant movie that has a few bright spots.
We found this movie on Netflix streaming movies, a small independent digital (Red One camera) movie shot in Canada with Canadian actors. Little person Jordan Prentice is Harvey Lippe working as a janitor and living in a small trailer in cold, snowy Canada. We see him fiddling often with his trailer heater, it doesn't seem to work well. He doesn't seem to have many friends, and has a film camera from days gone by. He enjoys shooting film, mostly ordinary scenes in the small town. Harvey was an orphan, and grew up in that setting. I suppose the unspoken message was that couples were just not interested in adopting a small person. But other than his very small stature Harvey is intelligent and seems perfectly normal, in fact more normal than most of the other characters we see. One day Harvey encounters Kristin Adams as Dakota Dixon, house-sitting for an absent couple. Harvey is surprised and guarded when Dakota befriends him. It is an experience he has not had, nor expected, attention from a pretty girl. Later, when she kisses him, and tells him she wants to eradicate his virginity, he is REALLY surprised. This is a story about Harvey, who probably considers himself insignificant. But after he stands up to his bad boss, experiences Dakota before she goes off to New York, as the movie ends we feel Harvey is finding out some new things about himself. Production values are not very high, the acting is OK, it is a pleasant diversion but for us at least not particularly memorable.
meh
I Did not enjoy this film despite repeated attempts to watch it, and the fact that I really wanted to like it. I was frustrated by some of the far-fetched and unrealistic characters and scenes, I thought the protagonist was very difficult to relate to and ended up shutting the TV off after the scene at the vet clinic when the dog was injured. I think that scene completely missed whatever the director's intent was (with me anyways) and appeared cruel and sickening. Some parts of the movie are not bad, but it was one of the more difficult and awkward films I've seen in a long time. The protagonist's employer is unrealistically abusive and his friend Lucas is pretty hard to believe as well.