Woody Allen roared back at his detractors with Deconstructing Harry, a bitterly funny treatise about the creative process. Known to mine his often tumultuous personal life for his movies, the embattled writer-director-star didn't bother to make his alter ego likable in this movie: Harry Block (Allen) pops pills, frequents prostitutes and cheats on the women in his life, then writes about their foibles in thinly disguised fiction. No wonder they're all furious with him. As Harry journeys to his alma mater with a hooker, ill pal and kidnapped son, a series of flashbacks... unravel, juxtaposing Harry's relationships with their "slightly exaggerated" fictional counterparts. There are amusing cameos throughout, including a humorous turn by Demi Moore as a fictitious ex-wife who "became Jewish with a vengeance" and Billy Crystal as the devil who found Hollywood too nasty for his liking. The humour is dark and caustic but well worth it; Deconstructing Harry is a near-brilliant meditation on the sometimes queasy relationship between art, creator and critic.--Diane Garrett [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends Now his best friends are about to become his worst enemies Harry Block is a well regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly veil his own experiences in his work and his fondness for pills and prostitutes has left him with three ex-wives that hate him At the same time as he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him he is faced with writers block and losing his beautiful latest flame to a romantic rival author The critically acclaimed masterpiece that has had everybody talking DECONSTRUCTING HARRY is hugely entertaining and hilariously funny not to be missed Interactive Menu Scene Access Actors - Woody Allen Kirstie Alley Billy Crystal Judy Davis Julie Kavner Demi Moore Elisabeth Shue Robin Williams Julie Kavner Caroline Aaron Bob Balaban Amy Irving Tobey Maguire Mariel Hemingway Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Eric Lloyd Director - Woody Allen Certificate - 18 years and over Year - 1997 Screen - Fullscreen 43 Languages - English - Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles - English Duration - 1 hour and 37 minutes (approx)
Woody Allen stars in and directs this comedy drama. Harry Block (Allen) is a renowned novelist with a habit for using those around him as inspiration for the characters in his books. Just as he is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the college that expelled him, he suffers with the dreaded writer's block and risks losing his girlfriend, Fay (Elisabeth Shue), to rival writer and old friend Larry (Billy Crystal). The film's latter half, Harry's existential roadtrip, is a tragicomedy homage to Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' (1957), as Harry's fictional characters come alive to challenge him.
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