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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><U><FONT color=#ff0000 size=6 face=Impact>AVON
THEATER EXTRA! EXTRA! </FONT></U></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Hey July 4th Weekend Decatur
Avonians!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Just in case the obnoxious 3D robots, and
superheroes, and kiddie fare have scared you away from the movies this
summer, along comes TOM HANKS and JULIA ROBERTS in LARRY CROWNE to prove to
you it is still SAFE for the more discerning Avon crowd to come see
us! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>In fact, here is a review from Avon pal LEONARD
MALTIN:</FONT></DIV>
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<H1>movie review: Larry Crowne<BR>by Leonard Maltin</H1>
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<P><BIG><B>If you like, you can think of <I>Larry Crowne</I></B> as the
anti-<I>Transformers</I>. It’s the opposite of an Event Movie for the summer
season; instead, it’s an old-fashioned star vehicle, fashioned for the
particular screen personas of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts by Hanks himself, who
directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Nia Vardalos. (You may recall
that he produced her breakthrough film, <I>My Big Fat Greek Wedding</I>, a
decade ago.) As such, it’s easy to take and lightly enjoyable. One might even
call it a “nice” movie, which will surely please one segment of the moviegoing
audience and repel another.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Hanks plays a hard-working store manager who is suddenly downsized; it
seems he doesn’t qualify for a management position because he never went to
college. (He served in the Navy instead.) Forced to take stock of his life, he
decides to enroll at a local community college.</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>There he makes new friends, including a sprite played by British actress
Gugu Mbatha-Raw. She and her friends open Larry Crowne to a whole new world of
experiences.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>He also signs up for a class in informal public speaking taught by a
world-weary Julia Roberts. She’s actually a very good teacher, but her marriage
is imploding and she’s been numbing the pain with booze. Then she realizes that
her new students aren’t a bad lot after all and are worth her time and
effort—especially Larry Crowne.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>There isn’t much more to the film. It has a relaxed feeling, and is
populated by good actors, even in small roles. (Hanks is nothing if not loyal.
Veteran military advisor Dale Dye, with whom he worked on <I>Saving Private
Ryan</I> and <I>Band of Brothers</I>, plays the guy who has to fire him. Nia
Vardalos’ husband Ian Gomez runs the restaurant where Hanks takes a job as
short-order cook. Of course, the star’s wife, Rita Wilson, has a small role as a
bank manager; their son plays a pizza delivery boy.)</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Whether you find the film too self-consciously cute is a matter of
personal taste; there are definitely times that its whimsy seems forced. On the
other hand, after several weeks of summer-movie bombast, it’s not so bad to sit
back and relax with a harmless piece of fluff like
this.<BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>So, what more do you need to know, folks?<BR>There is a movie
for YOU to see this July 4th weekend, and its always BETTER at the
AVON!!</STRONG></BIG></P>
<P><BIG><FONT size=5 face="Lucida Handwriting"><EM>-Skip
Huston</EM></FONT></BIG></P></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>