In addition to its stars, “Larry Crowne” is enforced by a terrific supporting cast that includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a young student that helps bring out Larry’s suppressed youth, and the ...

all nicely cast and agreeably embodied. And that protagonist is, that’s right, Larry Crowne (Hanks), a former Navy cook who starts off the movie getting fired from his longtime place of ...

It’s a good thing that “Larry Crowne” is able to cast these and other peripheral characters so well (the veteran Jeanne McCarthy did the honors), because it’s right about now that Crowne ...

Hanks plays a Decent American Joe better than anyone since James Stewart, and Larry Crowne is notably nice even ... his financial crises (kinda creepy to cast one’s missus -- Rita Wilson ...

The rest of the cast is slightly annoying, including Julia Roberts as a burned-out professor whom Larry falls for. George Takei co-stars as an economics professor with an odd, booming laugh.

Henson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, on being directed by an icon, getting to know their neighbors and how ‘Crowne’ fares in the summer market of comic book movies and tentpoles. Larry Crowne is the ...

This is 2011, and what was once a clash of the genre titans is now, well, a bit sad. Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks ... because the cast is stellar. Tom Hanks is likable, as he always is, and we know ...