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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
February 12, 1897 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2 October 1917, New York City, New York, USA
3 January 1917, Buffalo, New York, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
November 9, 1887 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
March 28, 1876 in Devon, England, UK
28 October 1883, Alton, Illinois, USA
20 April 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
16 August 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, 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.
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.
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.
March 29, 2011
Great performances lifts this movie above its stilted script and production.
March 29, 2011
This is a happy movie and leaves a long, lingering warm glow.
March 26, 2009
Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation.
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.
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.
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.
August 15, 2011
A modest family film that lays on the sweetness a bit to heavily.