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Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, Geena Davis, Chevy Chase, Tom Arnold
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Hero (1992) |
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Dustin Hoffman plays Bernard LaPlante, a homeless man, down on his luck. He is fired from his job and living in a homeless shelter. He is divorced from his wife and has difficulty getting time to see his son. One day he is supposed to go meet his son, but events intervene. A plane crashes and people are trapped inside. Bernard does something very uncharacteristic--he rescues the people inside. One of them is Geena Davis, who is a television reporter. She goes on a quest to find the man who saved her.
Bernard isn't interested in publicity because of his legal problems. His homeless friend John Bubber, played by Andy Garcia, decides he'll tell everyone it was him, after the TV station offers a reward of $1 million to give the channel an exclusive interview. Suddenly his life his changed in the whirl of paparazzi. In the meantime, Bernard can't stand it that Bubber is taking credit for something he didn't do. Unfortunately, he can't tell the authorities about it because he is locked up in jail for credit card fraud, something that could take him to prison for a good long time this time, since he has other prior crimes he committed.
--BethG, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Hero (1992) |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- bum/drifter
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Age:
- long-lived adults
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- Chicago
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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