Mad Tiger Movie Review

I went to see Henry Poole Is Here today starring Luck Wilson as Henry, Adriana Barraza as Esperanza, Henry’s religious neighbor, and Radha Mitchell as Henry’s other neighbor Dawn Stupek.


Henry has just found out that he has contracted a terminal disease and doesn’t have long to live. Angry and sad, he quits his job and buys a run down house in the old neighborhood where he grew up. Subsisting on pizza, krispy kreme and vodka, Henry just wants to live out the rest of his days shut off from the world in his house. But his neighbors won’t leave him alone.


Then one day Henry sees Esperanza in his back yard staring at a water stain on his stucco wall. Esperanza claims she sees the face of God in the water stain. Henry doesn’t believe and if flabbergasted when he see that Esperanza has brought a Priest to verify the miracle.
The next thing Henry knows, Esperanza is bringing more and more people to see the face of God on his wall. Suddenly it seems that people are getting healed by touching his wall. In a fit of rage Henry knocks down the wall.

And that is all I am going to tell you. So was the wall a miracle? Did it really heal people? Well, just see the movie and draw your own conclusions.

I give this movie 3 and half tiger paws.