Harvey

So I have decided that every Friday I think I'm going to review a movie, new old, young, famous, indie, whatever I really feel like, and I thought the perfect thing to start with would be Harvey!! It stars Jimmy Stewart, the ONLY person who could have pulled off this role SO fantastically, and it was released in the 1950's. It started off as a play on Broadway and, like so many others at the time, was created into a movie. At first when casting, they thought that Jimmy Stewart was too old to play Uncle Elwood, but after the movie was released and became so popular, no one could EVER think of anyone else who could play it the way Jimmy Stewart did. It starts off with Elwood Dowd's aunt's hosting an afternoon tea. You quickly learn that their Uncle Elwood is a bit odd, after you meet him and his friend Harvey, you begin to realize just how strange he really is. The man has a best friend who is a human-sized talking imaginary rabbit. A pooka to be exact. His sister tries to send him to a mental institution but since you don't find out until later exactly who he is trying to introduce all his guests too, you think he is perfectly normal. Then, when his sister keeps insisting that Elwood actually does have a six foot 3 inch invisible rabbit for a friend convinces Chumley it is she, not Elwood, who is hallucinating. After Elwood goes to his favorite bar Charlie's, and the doctor has "gone off with Harvey" everyone finds him and are convinced he did away with the doctor, and they summon the police. Elwood is swept off to the sanitarium even though the doctor really did go off with Harvey, but doesn't tell anyone. Much more madness and chaos ensues, but overall this movie is a fun-filled movie that anyone would enjoy. Overall grade A+ (and not just because I LOVE it!!)