A Thousand Words [DVD]

This was actually a great movie and for £4, you cant go wrong,yes its a bit old fashioned buts that the good thing about it!.. kids will love it for the comedy and adults like me will love it for emotions! try it AND you can thank me later!

Considering that this film is thematically similar to a lot of others, I thought about Liar, Liar watching it and even Murphy's other movie in which he plays a spiritual guru taken on by a big studio to spin money, it was probably never going to stand out from the crowd. However, I did hope for a better feature than what this turned out to be.

It is funny, it is also heartfelt and moving but all in a sort of daytime TV or soap opera way, the characters are a little flat or one dimensional and it is all very, very predictable from beginning to end.

The story follows a wheeling and dealing charismatic business player who trades on his verbal skills and talents. Following an encounter with a guru who he signs up for a book deal, not caring about what sort of message the guru is purveying, only that it is sufficiently vague to sell to everyone, a tree springs up in our protagonists garden which sheds leaves as he speaks. Convinced that when the leaves all finally drop he will perish our hero has to rethink every time he speaks.

There follows a series of funny set pieces in which our heroes day to day activities are limited by his inability to speak, such as ordering coffee (que lots of product placement for Starbucks, another reason why I did not like this movie more). It takes on a more serious tone when he can not speak to his child during a fathers and sons day at the creche or to his wife when she seeks to spark up their marriage.

The story does branch out in a sort of road to perdition and redemptive way, however, rather than it being about a serious reflection upon thinking before you speak or considering importance of communication it chooses instead to focus upon dreams Murphy's character has about his own childhood and relationship to his father.

I was left thinking that perhaps the writers had come up with a plot in a stream of consciousness fashion or strung together a number of amusing set pieces. As a result it isnt that great, I do think movies like Liar, Liar compare favourably but its not an awful feature either.

I love this movie as it is very funny but at the same time it has a meaningful storyline. I don't wanna give the storyline away so won't go into any details. But if you must know see below!
I thought they stopped making movies like this! One of the best movies in a long time.

it is about a guy who meets a "guru" & soon after, due to some supernatural events, he finds himself with a tree growing in his garden. The tree has a lot of leaves but soon he realizes every word he utters, the tree loses a leaf, plus everything that happens to the tree, affects him (eg when the gardener sprays with pesticides & he's away in a business meeeting, he starts getting high & acting strange!). He calls the guru & tells him what he did to him & he said when the tree loses all its leaves, he will die. So he must be sparing with his words until he finds a cure. I will stop here so you watch it!