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Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen

4.5
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Directed by: 
Woody Allen
Screenplay by: 
Woody Allen
Produced by: 
Jean Doumanian
Release year: 
1997
Country: 
United States of America
Runtime: 
96min
Genre: 
Fantasy
Romance Film
Indie film
Black comedy
Sex comedy
Comedy of manners
Ensemble Film
Comedy
Drama
Locations: 
New York City
Tagline: 
Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends. Now, his best friends are about to become his worst enemies.
Plot: 
Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister.
Cast: 
Woody Allen
as
Harry Block
Kirstie Alley
as
Joan
Bob Balaban
as
Richard
Richard Benjamin
as
Ken / Harry's Character
Eric Bogosian
as
Burt
Billy Crystal
as
Larry / The Devil (Harry's Character)
Judy Davis
as
Lucy
Hazelle Goodman
as
Cookie
Mariel Hemingway
as
Beth Kramer
Amy Irving
as
Jane
Julie Kavner
as
Harry's Character
Eric Lloyd
as
Hilly
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
as
Grace / Harry's Character
Tobey Maguire
as
Harvey Stern
(
Harry's Character
)
Demi Moore
as
Helen / Harry's Character
Elisabeth Shue
as
Fay
Stanley Tucci
as
Paul Epstein / Harry's Character
Robin Williams
as
Mel / Harry's Character
Tony Darrow
as
Camera Operator/Harry's Character
Caroline Aaron
as
Doris
Paul Giamatti
as
Prof. Abbott
Jennifer Garner
as
Woman in Elevator / Harry's Character
Julie Kavner
as
Grace
Brett Glazer
as
Student

Reviews

Review by Drugo

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4.5

Certainly one of the best films of Allen, there are so many funny sketches and brilliant jokes, as well as a perfect interlacement
between literary fiction and movie fiction.

Allen once again plays about his life e his neurosis, and he says sincerely that the only place where he can be happy is the one of his fiction, the same fiction that, however, tells very well the real world and gave many happy moments to his audience.

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
Casablanca, 1942