The Book of Henry (2017) | 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller | 16 June 2017 (USA)

The Book of Henry is a 2017 American drama film directed by Colin Trevorrow and written by Gregg Hurwitz. The film stars Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace, Maddie Ziegler and Dean Norris. The film is scheduled to be released on June 16, 2017, by Focus Features.

In a small suburban town, a precocious 11-year-old boy, named Henry Carpenter, and his younger brother, Peter, are being raised by their single mother, Susan, who works as a waitress. Henry has a crush on their next-door neighbor Christina Sickleman, a girl around his age, who is the stepdaughter of the police commissioner. To protect Christina from harm at the hands of her abusive stepfather, Glenn, Henry comes up with a plan to rescue her that he writes in a book. Henry's mother discovers the book and decides that she and Peter will put Henry's scheme into motion.


Release[edit]
The Book of Henry was scheduled to be released on September 16, 2016, but Focus rescheduled its release to June 16, 2017. The film had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14, 2017.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 25% based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10.[23] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 27 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "There’s the kind of bad movie that just sits there, unfolding with grimly predictable monotony. Then there’s the kind where the badness expands and metastasizes, taking on a jaw-dropping life of its own, pushing through to ever-higher levels of garishness. The Book of Henry ... is of the latter, you’ve-got-to-see-it-to-disbelieve-it variety.