Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely brilliant

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie is about taking responsibility for one's actions, no matter how reprehensible. A man whose reputation is seemingly beyond reproach in fact has been harboring two secrets from the distant past, both of which suggest a darker and more sinister side of his personality. In a way, this movie is almost like a contemporary version of The Picture of Dorian Grey. On the surface, everything seems well, but that's merely a sham covering up a spiritual ugliness that sooner or later will be revealed. The presents the story in a forthright manner and is well-acted. The movie's principal character did a really rotten and hurtful thing and has been living a lie. How he resolves these issues is what this movie is about. The movie deals with these issues candidly and effectively, without bombarding the audience with pretentious and superfluous platitudes. Instead, the movie tells the story and leaves it to the audience to judge as to whether the man is worthy of forgiveness and respect.

I found this movie to be a brilliantly crafted little gem. Rarely do we find movies that deftly handle such sensitive subject with such aplomb. The characters were extremely well written. This film surely strikes a cord with anyone over 40 years old. Not in it's portrayal of a man struggling with his sexuality, but in it's depiction of a human being who is growing older and hasn't come to terms with things done as a young person. And the deep sorrow or regret we feel.An excellent 94 minutes. What movie-making should be.Please by all means see this film. I apologize for my brevity. I simply don't believe that in order to enjoy a movie we have to discuss every nuisance of the movie.

This film sets off with a pensive mood, as the leading character, repair shop-owner Harry is being teased and a waitress invites him to have more intimate contact with her. Harry seems an earnest man, reflective, he is wanting to do the honest thing. So it seems. He refuses the offer to sleep with the wife of his friend, a Navy sailor, who uses tablets to enhance his love-life. Harry is really a gentleman that is conforming to the southern old style, a beau for the belles. But as he is thrown out and the wife of his former friend accompanies him, as she is leaving her man, they consume their relationship more intimately. But as the movie progresses the story turns into something totally different. Be forewarned, this is not a thriller but a movie about Harry's betrayal of his male lover. The hinting is carefully done, but after an hour the director goes wild on his narrative organ, throws his registers wide open and the film becomes a whimpering tragedy about masculine love. It all fell into places then, the predilection for men in uniform, the warm mates. And then comes the revelation about the crime, which is not a crime, but more of a Dionysian frenzy evoked by a lover who wishes to destroy his lover to avoid his own detection. So this is the story about a sacrifice. And in order not to shame his family, and not undermine his vocation in the direction of priesthood, Harry incites his comrades and bashes the hand of his lover, maiming him and ending thereby his career. The victim remains fascinated by his lover, he keeps tracing him throughout his life and career. If this is not Identity-stalking for you, what is? And there is one other peculiar storyline which of course is typical for the gay community: gay becomes priest to avoid being outed. Harry wanted to be a priest. He tells a friend that he did not become a priest because the chaplain on the ship kept combing his hair when he told him about his vocation and longing for the Lord, the man did not turn around. So Harry submitted his cause, and the chaplain leaves because he had an appointment with higher quarters, no not Heaven, but the Navy-captain. This has put Harry off for good.. It is just another saddening fact in a totally confusing biography? So Harry decides, as he is no priest stuff as a Navy-sparky, he will drop the idea of becoming a priest. So much for his higher idealism. The name of the movie is Handsome Harry but it should be called Tiresome Harry.. This is a tired movie about tired people who confuse their lust and fascination for love. The title is misleading the public by positing itself as a thriller and being a story about guilt. Harry doesn't feel any real guilt, he is glad he has escaped detection by his mates. It is a sorry no-sorry movie which should be better labeled for viewers. A sad coming out, but not-coming out story, as Harry flees to where no one knows him. This movie will be appreciated by the gay community, but for viewers that go for crime and straight male-female relationship and romance it is a saddening waste of time. The depth is all fabrication and the tragedy is no real tragedy at all, but confusion of mind and a story of sheer cowardliness. I felt sorry for the waitress..

Perhaps this will not be a very fair or complete review. We could not get through this movie no matter how hard we tried.The telegraphed dialog and the wooden delivery of the actors, particularly with Mr. Sheridan, made me feel like I was watching a re-run of Matlock or Murder She Wrote.Un-inventive, predictable and sophomoric are words that come to mind.In one of the first scenes from the film, when we see Harry in his favorite restaurant, I was waiting for someone to start listing all the possible side effects of taking the mood altering pharmaceutical they were pitching... oh wait, this was supposed to be a movie. But it sure seems like a commercial for senior medicine.If you like thrillers from the Lifetime network, this is for you.If you like well made movies that have believable characters, look elsewhere.