MOVIE
REVIEW
MOVIE
REVIEW
Title:
HOOVEY
Rating:
Starring:
Patrick Warburton, Lauren
Holly, Cody Linley, Alyson
Stoner
Written by:
Howard Klausner
Directed by:
Sean McNamara
Genre:
Sport, Drama
Running Time:
91 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG
Production Company:
Gundersen Entertainment,
Brookwell-McNamara
Entertainment, EchoLight
Studios
Reviewed by:
Christian St John
Release Date:
Jan 31, 2015 : Theatrical
28 > CHRISTIAN REVIEW
B
ased on true events, Hoovey is a
movie about family and faith and
tells the remarkable story of Eric
“Hoovey” Elliot, a basketball loving high
school student. At the beginning of the
movie, Hoovey is suffering from blurred
vision and severe headaches which are
quickly written off as poor eyesight. Then
one day he gets a blow to the head during
basketball practice and it is soon
discovered that he has a tumor the size of
an orange at the base of his brain.
After an 8 hour operation the tumor is
removed and the good news is Eric will live.
But the operation leaves him having to
learn how to walk, talk, and read again.
And overnight, the Elliot family find
themselves in crippling debt that threatens
to rob them of the lives they have built up
for themselves and known for so long.
Hoovey is an excellently produced movie; it
looks and sounds great. The screenplay is
engaging, something that is made even
more so by the acting by all involved. Cody
Linley (TV’s Hannah Montana) plays the
movie’s namesake, and his parents are
played by Patrick Warburton (TV’s Family
Guy) and Lauren Holly (TV’s Motive). And
they are brilliant in this movie… in fact
everyone involved brings their best to this
one!
Hoovey is a faith loaded movie. On the one
hand it shows the cold-hard reality that life
can change in an instant - one minute the
Elliot family are a normal American family
living the dream, the next their lives are
thrown into chaos and financial ruin. On
the other hand, it shows how when push
comes to shove the Elliot family took
everything to God and trusted in Him, no
matter how hard it seemed at the time.
Much like the stellar movie adaptation of
Heaven is for Real, Hoovey is an inspiring
and hope filled, family friendly movie.
There is a fair amount of tear jerking and
tense moments throughout, but the movie
ultimately shows that through everything
the Elliot family faced, God was the one
constant in their lives.
As a movie, Hoovey has it all. It’s funny,
dramatic, moving, and poignant,
everything you want when watching a
feelgood movie. Everyone at Christian
Review loved this movie, as such Hoovey
comes highly recommended!