Release:
2 april 2014
Director:
Michelle Danner
Cast:
Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead, The Boondock Saints I & II, Meskada)
Garrett Backstrom (The Motel Life)
Martha Higareda (Street Kings)
Rob Estes (90210)
Andy McPhee (Animal Kingdom, The Condemned)
Genre:
Drama
Year: 2012


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Hello Herman


SYNOPSIS

Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, famous journalist Lax Morales, sending him clips of the shootings captured with Herman's own digital camera. In the clips Herman tells Lax, "I want to tell my story on your show". Lax, haunted by his own past, is now face to face with Herman. The movie explores why and how a massacre like this can happen in our society, desensitizing in America, youth violence and bullying, the impact the media has on our individual quest for fame, and ultimately our need for connection.


REVIEWS

  • Danny Miller, MSN Movies: A powerful film that should be required viewing for adolescents everywhere. Garrett Backstrom is outstanding as the troubled teen.
  • Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Garrett Backstrom is excellent... I was reminded of Michael Moore's 'Bowling For Columbine'.
  • Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair: HELLO HERMAN is a powerful and important work, a darkly brilliant tone poem about America's tango with violence and fame. Herman will get under your skin. He may even follow you home. What is certain is you won't soon forget him."
  • Betty Jo Tucker. Reel Talk: A timely and highly important movie...I've enjoyed Reedus' excellent work in TV's THE WALKING DEAD, but I think he's even better here.
  • Philip Martin, Arkansas Democratic Review: Pushes a lot of buttons. Surely one of them does something.
  • Best Movies Ever Entertaiment News: HELLO HERMAN is brilliant in making us look deeper inside ourselves... Must see... Brilliant... Powerful... Controversial... Reedus is superb... Garrett Backstrom blew me away... Loved this film!
  • Pamela Powell, Real Honest Reviews: Daring film HELLO HERMAN cannot be ignored... This intense, thought provoking, and unnerving film will open the floodgates to become more connected.
  • Joe Comicbook, Comicbook.com: HELLO HERMAN is the type of movie that Hollywood rarely makes, but should make more often... Powerful film... Garrett Backstrom and Norman Reedus are both brilliant in their roles.
  • Justin Williams, Otakus and Geeks: Garrett Backstrom does a stellar job... Very powerful... This is a movie with a message, heart and it get point across.
  • Jesse Kornbluth Head Butler: Surprisingly touching film.. under Michelle Danner's sensitive direction, a veil is lifted on how evil gets layered into character over time... Deeply moving film appropriate for younger audiences.
  • Karin Crighton, Horror Talk: I do applaud Mailer and Danner's courage to tell a troubling story.
  • David Appleford, Film and Theatre Reviews: Even though the film is set a little in the future, 'Hello Herman' couldn't be timelier... Norman Reedus giving the film its best performance... It's more concerned with exploring the reasons behind the act... Trying to understand what it is that makes someone like Herman commit such an appalling act is commendable.
  • Jason Abbey, The Movie Waffler: A very challenging film. One that could not be more current at the moment... Kudos also to Jeff Beals' jazzy score... The direction is fluid... The depiction of the massacre is chilling, understated and thoroughly convincing... A flashback to Herman's attraction to one of his fellow students, Marsha (Olivia Faye), which starts out tentatively as a spark of attraction, is the film's greatest moment, showing the small slights and petty violence both emotional and physical that goes into making a tabloid monster like Herman... This is an interesting, intelligent work.
  • Robert Galvan, Nerd Reactor: Insightful look on topics people don't really want to discuss... proves that Norman Reedus isn't just a kick-ass actor who kicks ass, but is also a serious actor who should be in more dramatic roles like this.

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