Arguably the worst film Mike Nichols ever directed, Regarding Henry undercuts its supposed emotionalism while also failing to resonate on any other level. The huge mistake the film makes is having Harrison Ford's personality change occur involuntarily. He learns what an unrepentant jerk he was, but his apologies feel empty because his change is forced by outside events. He never realizes he must change because he hurts the people he loves; he changes because he was shot in the head. The character is such a fascinatingly unrepentant jerk in the beginning of the film that Nichols could have expanded on it to satirize all yuppies, but by having his entire nature altered after the opening 20 minutes, those possibilities disappear. Taking the worst elements of Rain Man and prefiguring the idiot angel Forrest Gump, Mike Nichols displays a heretofore unseen undiluted sentimentalism that seems dishonest from a man who made The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.