Larry Crowne (2011)

Editor's Note An amiable Navy veteran loses his comfortable job at a big-box store, enrolls in community college, and seeks to reinvent himself while falling for his apathetic speech professor in this romantic comedy re-teaming Academy Award-winning CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR co-stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. Larry Crowne (Hanks) has just been downsized. The unfortunate victim of a failing economy, Larry decides that his best option to avoid becoming idle is to take some classes at his local community college. In no time, Larry befriends a colorful group of moped-obsessed outcasts on the road to self-improvement, and begins working to sharpen his communication skills in a public speaking class taught by Mercedes Tainot (Roberts). Disenchanted with her job and bored in her marriage, Mercedes has begun to feel as if she's missing out on life. But whenever she's with Larry, all of her problems seem to disappear. Now, just as Larry and Mercedes are feeling as if their lives have been put on hold, they both discover that fate sometimes has a way of giving us exactly what we need, at precisely the right time. Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Pam Grier, and George Takei co-star.

	Bryan Cranston
	Julia Roberts
	Taraji P. Henson
	Tom Hanks
	Cedric the Entertainer
	Wilmer Valderrama - Co-Star
	Ian Gomez - Co-Star
	Holmes Osborne - Co-Star
	Erin Underwood - Co-Star
	Julie Wagner - Co-Star
	Tom Budge - Co-Star
	Nia Vardalos - Voice
	Malcolm Barrett - Co-Star
	Brady Rubin - Co-Star
	Rob Riggle - Co-Star
	Carly Reeves - Co-Star
	Roxana Ortega - Co-Star
	Rami Malek - Co-Star
	Randall Park - Co-Star
	Sarah Mahoney - Co-Star
	Alex Quijano - Co-Star
	Bob Stephenson - Co-Star
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Co-Star
	Chet Hanks - Co-Star
	Maria Canals - Co-Star
	Tina Huang - Co-Star
	Taurina Pouncy - Co-Star
	Julia Cho - Co-Star
	Grace Gummer - Co-Star
	Jack Milo - Co-Star
	A.B. Fofana - Co-Star
	Sarah Levy - Co-Star
	Chad Smathers - Co-Star
	Joshua Bitton - Co-Star
	E-Kan Soong - Co-Star
	"Biff" Henderson - Co-Star
	Ricardo Salinas - Co-Star
	Jon Seda - Co-Star
	Herbert Siguenza - Co-Star
	Barry Sobel - Co-Star
	Claudia Stedelin - Co-Star
	George Takei - Co-Star
	Rita Wilson - Co-Star
	Dale Dye - Co-Star
	Pam Grier - Co-Star
	Richard Montoya - Co-Star
	Sy Richardson - Co-Star
	Tom Hanks - Screenwriter
	James Newton Howard - Composer
	Phillippe Rousselot - Director of Photography
	Nia Vardalos - Screenwriter
	Tom Hanks - Director

Box Office
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This charmer about late middle-aged renaissance is pertinent for these times....Flashing their superstar wattage, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks make a dream team..." 06/29/2011

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "There's a nice cameo from George Takei....And Hanks keeps things chirpy and clipped..." 07/07/2011