The Movie:

Despite not finding much of an audience upon its release in 1994, "Nobody's Fool" eventually found a much-deserved following once it hit the small screen. This masterfully constructed character piece contains superb performances all around, wonderfully touching moments of humor and emotion and stellar writing.

Newman (in an Oscar-nominated performance) plays Sully,a construction worker who finds himself living in the upstairs apartment of the house of his 8th-grade teacher (Jessica Tandy). He finds temp work with the owner of the local construction company, Carl Roebuck (Bruce Willis); when not working for him, he flirts with his wife (Melanie Griffith, at her best). Sully lives a life of repetition - getting in trouble, getting drunk and getting the occasional job - until his son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), enters the picture, with a grandchild in tow.

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