Deconstructing Harry

Buy This Item Deconstructing Harry by New Line Home Video  Available from Amazon  $21.99  on 11-17-2008     Woody Allen roared back at his detractors with <I>Deconstructing Harry</I>, 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 humor is dark and caustic, but well worth it; <I>Deconstructing Harry</I> is a near-brilliant mediation on the sometimes queasy relationship between art, creator, and critic. <I>--Diane Garrett</I> Reader Reviews Usually there's at least a few laughs in a Woody Allen movie, and many of them have more than a few. But this one was just AWFUL. Ten times the neuroses and ten times the vulgarity of a typical Allen film. Overall a totally graceless, droning film experience which I regretted having. I really can't believe this movie get so many glowing reviews here. Not to mention that most of the humor is quite adolescent. A low point for Allen.

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