An Insignificant Harvey

Show Me. Don't Tell Me.
If you have to explain a joke, it's not a good joke. If you have to tell your audience what the movie is about, it's not a good movie.

Here's the scoop. Harvey is a little person. He's a janitor in a small, Canadian ski resort. He lives in a trailer and life isn't pleasant. One day he's befriended by a stray dog. This, in turn, leads to a friendship/romance with a local stripper. So now Harvey is in foreign territory and isn't handling things well.

This all starts out well enough. Harvey is actually kind of an interesting guy. He has a couple of movie cameras and shoots a lot of film of people in, or passing through, the town. He doesn't kid himself about his prospects as a little person in a small, bust-out Canadian hamlet. So, through the dog, and the stripper, the viewer gets a glimmer of hope for him. We root for him and want to see him realize whatever dreams he might have. But, in the third act, writer/director Jeff Kopas starts to explain, through...

I think I would of enjoyed it more on netflix
It was a good film, but I paid for it so I just expect a little more from the movies I purchase.

AN INSIGNIFICANT HARVEY
Rather a been there, done that with THE STATION AGENT but Film Movement is always on to something and this is touching at times. Where would we be without Film Movement?

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