|
''Regarding Henry'' is a 1991 American film drama starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by J. J. Abrams focuses on a New York City lawyer who struggles to regain his memory and recover his speech and mobility after he survives a shooting. ==Plot== Ambitious, callous, narcissistic, and at times unethical, Henry Turner is a highly successful Manhattan attorney whose obsession with his work leaves him little time for his prim socialite wife Sarah and troubled preteen daughter Rachel. He has just won a malpractice suit in which he defended a hospital against a plaintiff who claims, but is unable to prove, that he warned the hospital of an existing condition that then caused a problem. Running out to buy cigarettes one night, Henry is shot when he interrupts a convenience store robbery. One bullet hits his right frontal lobe, which controls some behavior and restraint, while the other pierces his chest and hits his left subclavian vein, causing excessive internal bleeding and cardiac arrest. He experiences anoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain, resulting in brain damage. Henry survives but initially he can neither move nor talk and he suffers retrograde amnesia. He slowly regains movement and speech with the help of a physical therapist named Bradley. Upon returning to his luxurious apartment, the almost childlike Henry is impressed by the surroundings he once barely noticed. As he forges new relationships with Sarah and Rachel, he realizes he does not like the person he was before the attack. As Sarah thinks it is best for all of them, Rachel is put into an out-of-town elite school for girls, as had been planned but now that she and her father are closer than ever, she is not happy to go. At orientation, Henry tells Rachel a fib to encourage her to enjoy the new surroundings and people. Sarah and Henry become much closer, as they had been when they first met. Henry also misses Rachel dearly. His firm allows him to return to work out of deference to his previous contributions to the firm's success. His wife suggests the family relocate to a smaller, less expensive residence. As his firm takes away his old assignments and large office and essentially assigns him only busy work, Henry begins to realize he does not want to be a lawyer any more either. While the couple are at a dinner party, they overhear several of their 'friends' making derogatory comments about Henry. He finds letters to Sarah from a former colleague disclosing an affair they had, becomes angry and upset and leaves home. He is confronted by Linda, a fellow attorney at his firm, who reveals that they were also having an affair and that he had told her he would leave Sarah for her, making him have second thoughts about himself and his relationships. He gives documents from his last case, that were suppressed by his firm, to the plaintiff who was in the right all along and apologizes. Henry then goes back to the firm and resigns, says goodbye to Linda and realizing that (as Sarah had said) everything had been wrong before but was now so much better, returns to her and they reconcile. The couple goes to Rachel's school and withdraw her and she is overjoyed to be with her parents. As the family leaves the building, she tosses her school-uniform hat away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regarding Henry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|