Harry and the Hendersons

Name: Harry and the Hendersons
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Family
Released: June 5, 1987
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 42
Cast: John Lithgow

1987

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 5, 1987 | PG

Starring: John Lithgow

Summary: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. When they examine the body, they find it's a Bigfoot. Thinking it might be dead, they decide to take it home. But when the Bigfoot wakes up, it turns out he is far from the ferocious monster they feared. He's a friendly giant. In theirReturning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. When they examine the body, they find it's a Bigfoot. Thinking it might be dead, they decide to take it home. But when the Bigfoot wakes up, it turns out he is far from the ferocious monster they feared. He's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man who has made it his goal in life to catch a Bigfoot.… Expand

Director: William Dear

Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 110 min

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Rick Groen

What do you get when you cross King Kong with E.T.? Harry And The Hendersons is what, and it's a delightful enough offspring - often funny, occasionally charming and always mighty eager to please. Too eager at times, but that's a forgivable flaw in an otherwise engaging hybrid. [5 June 1987]

Bill Cosford

It has several amiable performances, including Lithgow's usual nice guy, Lainie Kazan's savagely nosy neighbor, Margaret Langrick's petulant teen and Don Ameche as a bullion- hearted Bigfoot expert. And like Harry, in its own ham-handed, goofy way the film means so well. What the heck. [5 June 1987, p.D1]

Hal Lipper

This is a fun picture, even if it's overly sentimental and has the feeling of an extended Amazing Stories segment. Director Dear is a master Spielbergian craftsman. Now, all he has to do is demonstrate some originality to establish himself as a quality film maker. [5 June 1987, p.1D]

Duane Byrge

Harry and the Hendersons is a disappointment. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

It's overwhelming and, in a curious way, it's charming, but at the center, even though you see it in the right place, you detect not a heart, or a mind, but something like a hot, roasted marshmallow beating and burbling within a thickened, ursine breast. Read full review

Hal Hinson

It's about learning to be human and, on that level, it's utter schlock -- cloying, manipulative and overcute. You could see it on another level, though -- as a comedy about an obnoxious houseguest -- and feel a little kinder toward it. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Attention must be paid when a movie is as aggressively awful as Harry and the Hendersons, though it's so pin-headed that it could be the last of its inbred line. It's not likely to spawn. Read full review

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thegamerfemale

Mar 18, 2019

its a story that is just good, it is kinda like a comedy mixed with a heart warming story, you get something so good and osmething so sweet that its basically just a good story.

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Dragonfly44

Oct 11, 2018

I have nothing but love for this movie. It’s probably mostly nostalgia talking, but even watching it I can’t see much wrong with it. It’s a very heartwarming story in and out.

Rating - 74%

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