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Harvey
Elwood P. Dowd is a wealthy drunk who starts having visions of a giant rabbit named Harvey. The whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane, but Elwood may be wiser than anyone knows.
16 October 1879, Cozaddale, Ohio, USA
March 28, 1876 in Devon, England, UK
April 28, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA
16 June 1893, San Bernardino, California, USA
1 December 1913, Lansing, Michigan, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
February 12, 1897 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
March 5, 1906 in San Francisco, California, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
26 December 1900, New York City, New York, USA
March 16, 2004
What makes Harvey great is the fact that it's equally enjoyable as a piece of comedic fluff and as slyly intelligent social commentary.
December 26, 2014
Elwood may be a drunk (or not -- does he ever actually take a drink?), and he may be delusional, but he is also happier, less neurotic, and more content than the so-called normal people who surround him and claim to be looking out for his best interests.
March 29, 2011
Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story.
March 29, 2011
This is a happy movie and leaves a long, lingering warm glow.
March 25, 2006
If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of Harvey is definitely for you.
March 29, 2011
Great performances lifts this movie above its stilted script and production.
September 13, 2012
Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd is a soft-spoken philosopher and a friend to all -- he's quite disarming, and so is this movie.
August 03, 2009
Henry Koster might not have been the right director for this whimsical fantasy, based on the 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, but Jimmy Stewart and especially Josephine Hull (in an Oscar-winning turn) are superb.
February 09, 2006
Charming, lightweight stuff (from a play by Mary Chase), so long as you can take Stewart's ingenuousness, but it does wear thin.
May 29, 2008
Its one-note shtick wears thin.
August 15, 2011
A modest family film that lays on the sweetness a bit to heavily.
March 26, 2009
Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation.
