The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

  • 77% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (5,254 ratings)

This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from the… More

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Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 9, 1984 Wide
Vestron Video

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Erratic failure of comedy featuring Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Celebrates one family's resiliency in facing the accidents and perplexities of sex, violence and death.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Too deliberately quirky, but always watchable.

  • Andrew Howe, eFilmCritic.com

    Veers between brilliance and banality with an almost manic enthusiasm.

  • Scott Weinberg, Apollo Guide

    So-so John Irving adaptation suffers from cinematic schizophrenia.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    An extremely weird story, about a lot of weird things that happen to this family, and they just keep getting weirder. I wasn't sure if this movie was weird in a good way or a bad way, so I'll just say it's okay.

  • Dean M


    This writer-director Tony Richardson's film suffers from a frenetic pace designed to cram each idiosyncratic detail of the source material onto celluloid. Incest, rape, suicide, terrorism and sexuality issues populate the novel, but its author handles these and other cultural… More

  • Lafe F


    An engaging family-run-hotel film. Based on a great John Irvine novel. The characters are interesting and likeable. The situations are entertaining. Enjoyable viewing.

  • Stuart B


    weird film

  • Barry L


    I watched this as a kid and I still got the tension from this film. Very well written.

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