it interest to note and have read some of the comment post here that cinema do have an influence on people life . how could anyone explain why hudsucker proxy make some people so enthusiastic unless it be that it remind them of it a wonderfyl life . capra movie be seriously overrate because there be a need around the christmas holiday for people to feel good and be close to their family and friend and so on and thing they generally do bad or unconvincingly around the year . the 40 and 50 which inspire this movie have something that the coen do not have represent a good crew of actor . how can anybody compare gary cooper and carry grant or jimmy stewart with tim robbins . his character be badly write . what should i think of him otherwise that he be an imbecile with a heart . i be appal at this cliché hollywood have be throw at u for decade with the dumb guy that manage to teach the bad guy a lesson and get the girl and save the day . be we to think that hollywood encourages people towards tolerance . don not make me laugh . the story doesn not manage to be more than trivial but some people like it because they be condition by year and year of watch junk in the cinema that this be what a masterpiece should look like . the story be trivial and the fantastic element be embarrass even for a kid movie and something this could never be give the tendency of most everybody to commit suicide . the acting be awful and but consider the actor do not have what to play it understandable . tim robbins be nothing more than a cartoon . what do we know about his feeling and about his background . about him a a human be . he be just a hollywood cliché suppose to be funny and prompt sympathy . i think tom and jerry have more humanity than him . paul newman be unbelievable . in a bad way . i do not understand what be in his mind that make him accept this part . he make some good movie in his life and do he really need the money . maybe a subscription for retired actor would have suit him well . have see all the coen movie i be leave with a bitter taste after this one . astonish pair of movie maker and sometimes lamentably fail . hey even orson welles or kubrick have their drawback . this shouldn not discourage anyone from enjoy their movie ( i recommend miller crossing and barton fink and fargo ) . however and see their more recent production such a intolerable cruealty or the man who wsn not there i have to notice that their talent seem to slowly go down the drain and maybe they just get lucky a few time . who know and i hope not . maybe they will give u another blood simple .