Mr. Harrigan’s Phone Review — Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by John Lee Hancock, written by John Lee Hancock and Stephen King and starring Donald Sutherland, Jaeden Martell, Joe Tippett, Colin O’Brien, Kirby-Howell Baptiste, Frank Ridley, Peggy J. Scott, Thomas Francis Murphy, Randy Kovitz, Cyrus Arnold, Thalia Torio, Conor William [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Mr. Harrigan’S Phone (2022): Stephen King Adaptation is Slow-Moving and Only Occasionally Interesting...
- 10/11/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Located halfway between the coming-of-age nostalgia of “Stand by Me” and the horror content of … well, nearly every other Stephen King-derived movie, “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” ends up too mild on either count to make a memorable impression. Still, John Lee Hancock’s adaptation of the same-named novella (which led off King’s 2020 collection “If It Bleeds”) handles the rather thin source material adeptly enough to make for an entertaining middleweight drama tinged with the supernatural. It premieres on Netflix Oct. 5, getting Halloween month off to a moderately creepy start.
Craig (Colin O’Brien) is still a child when his mother dies of cancer in 2003, leaving him alone in his Maine small town with an equally bereft father (Joe Tippett). It is a welcome distraction, then, when his Scripture recitals in church attract the attention of Mr. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland), a billionaire financial tycoon who’s retired to this nondescript burg...
Craig (Colin O’Brien) is still a child when his mother dies of cancer in 2003, leaving him alone in his Maine small town with an equally bereft father (Joe Tippett). It is a welcome distraction, then, when his Scripture recitals in church attract the attention of Mr. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland), a billionaire financial tycoon who’s retired to this nondescript burg...
- 10/3/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
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