Fresh
Even the film's chanciest moments sustain an overall poignancy.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Heavy
He's a man so shy, he doesn't even think he deserves love…
1995 · 1h 45m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
James Mangold
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Heavy
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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