Heavy
He's a man so shy, he doesn't even think he deserves love…
He's a man so shy, he doesn't even think he deserves love…
Drama, Romance
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1995
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Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college dropout, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.
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Cast:
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Details
Runtime:
105 min
Release date:
29 Dec 1995
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Even the film's chanciest moments sustain an overall poignancy.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A small, quiet miracle of a movie in which tenderness, compassion and insight combine to create a tension that yields a quality of perception that's almost painful to experience.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
fresh:
You've been in places like this. You linger over a second cup of coffee and people-watch, trying to guess the secrets of the sad-eyed waitress and the drunk at the bar and the pizza cook who looks like he's serving a sentence.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Mangold's sympathy is genuine and his refusal to mock or condescend to his characters -- indeed, that may be the point of the film -- is a pleasure.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Even at 80 minutes, Heavy would have been weighted with redundancies. So you can imagine what happened on the way to making it 105 minutes long.
– Jeff Millar,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000