Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

jkeedy-1 This movie's best quality is in its implications. It is rather slow paced, but it allows the viewer to enjoy the movie almost as if one were reading a book. However, in reading the reviews, I have found nothing that might indicate that anyone saw something that I saw, making me question what I saw. Much has been written about Hemingway's sexual proclivity - the question of homosexuality. I see the questioned Hemingway in Frank's character, a macho persona who overcompensates. His scenes with women are all aggressive, not loving, and has many failed marriages. In Walter's character (Duvall) I see a repressed man. Unable to live true to his nature, he romanticizes his relationship with women. Does he really have a chance with Bullock's character? Has he ever "closed the deal" with a woman? There are a few sensual, tender or close moments in the film, namely the haircut and shave, the synchronized swimming and the fireworks scenes, and the type of bicycle they ride binds them metaphorically. Even the title's reference to wrestling could be metaphorical to an event that took place in Puerto Rico (perhaps not with Hemingway, perhaps not wrestling, and perhaps not with a woman). The message, if it is indeed there, may simply be another unspoken element in the film. Which, of course, is the beauty of this film, which I consider to be one of my top 100 of all time.

stipanich-1 In 1992, I was a literary agent at Writers & Artists Agency in LosAngeles. In a town where new scripts by unproven young writerscan't get their scripts read, I was one of the few agents who waseager to find new talent. One day, I received a letter from a youngwriter asking me to read his script. The title intrigued me and thestory he described demanded that I read the script. The young writer's name wasSteve Conrad and he had just graduated from the University ofChicago. The script was "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway", and fromthe very first page, I knew I had to represent it. The writing was sosimple, so poetic, so powerful, so witty and so real that I calledhim before I had even finished reading the script. I was able toconvince Todd Black, an enthusiastic young producer, to read itand his passion matched mine. He sold it to Warner Bros. andthey made the movie. In a Hollywood rarity, Steve remained thesole writer of the script.I am so gratified to read the User Comments and to see how thislittle gem of a movie has affected so many people. I am no longera literary agent; I now teach English and History to 6th graders. Ishall always be so proud that I had some part in bringing thiswonderful writer and his script to the screen, and that so many ofyou have shared my passion about it.

didi-5 The teaming of Robert Duvall and Richard Harris sounded promising even before this film opened, and neither disappoint in this tale of a couple of elderly oddballs having one last fling. Walter (Duvall) is a shy man, who has never danced with a woman, and whose only friend is a young waitress (Sandra Bullock) for whom he has developed a quaint affection. Frank (Harris) is a boaster, who claims to have wrestled with Hemingway – hence the film's title – who antagonises his landlady (Shirley MacLaine) and his lady friend (Piper Laurie); his family largely ignore him.The beauty of this film, written by twenty-one year old Steve Conrad and directed by Randa Haines, is that it gives you both a belief in the characters, and a genuine interest in what will happen to them. As Walter and Frank, misfits both, become friends, we cheer them on and are concerned for them at the same time. There can't be a happy ending for both of them (and there isn't), but this movie really is a celebration of age and what can be achieved beyond the prime of life. Bullock, Laurie and MacLaine are fine in small, less showy role, but this movie belongs squarely to Duvall and Harris.

Ann_Marie What a great film! Being a huge Sandra Bullock fan since 95, I knew I had to buy this. I was not let down at all. It is one of my all time favorites! Its a shame that many people don't know about it. Its filled with touching and hilarious moments with outstanding acting and a sweet story! Go get Wrestling Ernest Hemingway today!