Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Deconstructing Harry
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Medium level coarse language, low level sex scenes, sexual references

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Bob Balaban, Elisabeth Shue, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Garner, Paul Giamatti, Stanley Tucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robin Williams, Eric Bogosian, Demi Moore, Richard Benjamin, Viola Harris, Amy Irving, Eric Lloyd

Harry Block (Woody Allen) uses the chaos of his life as fodder for his writing, angering his friends, lovers, and family, who find thinly veiled (and rarely flattering) portraits of themselves in his work. Drowning his growing misery in pills and sex, Harry finds himself invited to receive an award at a college in upstate New York which he attended, but never graduated from. However, he has a hard time finding anyone who will attend the weekend-long symposium with him - his girlfriend Fay (Elisabeth Shue) has just left him to marry his friend Larry (Billy Crystal); his best friend Richard (Bob Balaban) is afraid he's about to have a heart attack; his former wife/analyst Joan (Kirstie Alley) refuses to let him take their son, and his one-time sister-in-law Lucy (Judy Davis) is literally ready to kill him. Undaunted, Harry hires a hooker, Cookie (Hazelle Goodman), kidnaps his son, forces Richard to come along and heads upstate, where disaster awaits.

DVD
Status: Normal
Run time: 91mins
Origin: UNITED STATES
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Member Reviews (2)

2 Member Reviews
Ditch
says
Not his best work. Ok movie, despicable, whining character.
Posted Friday, 15 June 2012 See my other reviews
gerd
says
It's wonderful, inventive and just a little crazy. It doesn't take long to work out that some of the scenes are recreations of the writer's fiction. But after a while it gets difficult to work out what's imagined and what's supposedly "real". Very clever, but enjoyable only for lovers of Woody Allen's neurotic persona.
Posted Thursday, 7 June 2012 See my other reviews