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	'Deconstructing Harry': Dark Laughter When Life Is All Halloween
		"Deconstructing Harry," his angriest film since "Stardust Memories" and also his most viciously funny, lets Allen expand on a thought raised less directly in "Bullets Over Broadway": that the person ruled by creative imagination may be indifferent, not to say ruinous, to the happiness of those around him.
		Harry uses his writing to skewer his sister Doris (Caroline Aaron), whom he describes as so "Jewish with a vengeance" that she prays over anything, which gives the film its best bawdy sight gag.
		When one of Harry's stand-ins, played by Robin Williams, suffers from the strange malady of being out of focus, the selfish solution is that his entire family wear glasses for the sake of his condition.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/121297harry-film-review.html (1173 words)

	DECONSTRUCTING HARRY
		Harry comments that he can't ever look at a woman without wondering what it would be like to have sex with her, and he "buys" the services of a prostitute.
		Harry comments that he can't ever look at a woman without wondering what it would be like to have sex with her.
		Harry is thrice divorced and there are several scenes where the women from his past & present fight with him over their problems.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/deconstructing_harry.html (2584 words)

	`Deconstructing Harry' lets Woody Allen be fierce
		One of Harry's former sisters-in-law (Judy Davis) is going supernova because he's publishing a story about their having an affair while he was married to the sister.
		Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Richard Benjamin are the fictionalized Harry and sister-in-law.
		But Harry is funny in inverse proportion to your distance from him; get close and he'll mine your suffering for "literary gold" without asking you before or apologizing afterward.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/movies/reviews/1225harry.html (516 words)

	Review: Deconstructing Harry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Deconstructing: To write about or analyze in a way that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth, asserts that words can only refer to other words, and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings.
		If Deconstructing Harry has an overriding theme, it's that the man and the artist can be separated, and, even if the man is a despicable person, his art can redeem him.
		Deconstructing Harry is an uneven piece of work, but the high level of comedy covers up many of the rough spots.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/deconstructing.html (936 words)

	Deconstructing Harry . Nashville Scene . 01-26-98
		The plot is driven by an honorary degree that Harry is to have bestowed upon him by his alma mater.
		Even in Deconstructing Harry, in which Allen makes his character a novelist who writes the sort of surrealist social commentary that Allen himself used to crank out, he undercuts the self-serving fantasy by making the writer a miserable crank.
		Deconstructing Harry is a marvelously funny character study about a man who functions best as a creator, rather than a creature of God.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/nash/d/deconstructinghar1.html (573 words)

	Deconstructing Harry
		Deconstructing Harry takes a step back from the incessantly crowd-pleasing Woodies of late to tell the best story Allen's come up with since 1991's Husbands and Wives.
		After one of Harry's exes (Judy Davis) nearly shoots him in a fit of rage, Harry plunges into a belated midlife crisis and eventually decides to come clean, dropping the pretense that his work is wholly fictional.
		Still, Deconstructing Harry is the loosest, giddiest film Woody Allen has made in decades, and for once the mirth seems genuine and not merely designed to win back a public whom Allen feels has turned against him.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/010198/movsht8.shtml (210 words)

	Deconstructing Harry
		In Harry’s world, the highest personal forces are human: good wizards like Harry and bad wizards like Lord Voldemort, the most feared of all the wizards.
		Harry’s world is modern and humanistic; like the post-Christian West, it assigns no meaningful role to personalities—God, Satan, demons, angels—not controlled by humanity.
		In Harry’s world, these forces are understood and called into service through magic—a “magic” that is so meticulously apprenticed that it is, for all practical purposes, a sort of science itself.
	www.science-spirit.org /article_detail.php?article_id=428 (970 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Deconstructing Harry" review
		I've always preferred Woody Allen's comedies to his sweet and sour dramas, but I was a little leery of "Deconstructing Harry" because of its highly commercial cast.
		A clearly autobiographical parable (although Allen vehemently denies it), the movie stars Allen as Harry Block, his typically frumpy, writer-type character who has alienated every friend and his entire family by using their lives, very thinly disguised, as fodder for his sordid novels.
		The film revolves around Harry trying desperately to find one single friend to go with him on a day trip to his alma mater, where he is to accept an honorary scholarship.
	www.splicedonline.com /97reviews/harry.html (659 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Deconstructing Harry
		Film students will argue that Allen is visually deconstructing the film medium; that the title is the clue to the mental processes of the auteur.
		Harry works himself into such dementia and depression upon learning that Faye, his last girlfriend (Elisabeth Shue) is going to marry his friend Larry (Billy Crystal) that his fictional creations appear in his real world to deconstruct what he has artfully hidden from himself via his stories.
		Deconstructing Harry is, perhaps, the most Jewish of all the Allen flicks.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/deconstructingharry.html (722 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Deconstructing Harry
		Deconstructing Harry is really a portfolio of sketches, but it does contain some fine caricatures, and Harry's various short stories add small diversions to the mix, including a tale of an actor (Robin Williams) who falls victim to a strange malady.
		Deconstructing Harry takes the patronizing qualities of Allen's last few films to a new extreme--the low points involve Hazelle Goodman as Cookie, a fl prostitute in lace-up PVC hot pants.
		Deconstructing Harry (R; 95 min.), directed and written by Woody Allen, photographed by Carlo Di Palma and starring Allen, Kirstie Alley and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.24.97/deconst-harry-9752.html (763 words)

	CNN - Review: Dwindling returns from 'Deconstructing Harry' - December 20, 1997
		Harry, in a move that Allen hasn't attempted to this degree since "Stardust Memories," is a thoroughly irredeemable jerk.
		But the mechanics of telling Harry's story, the situations in which the events take place (and even the way the camera is recording the scenes), are dead lifts from his past work.
		As much as I laughed at "Deconstructing Harry," it's an exceptionally lazy film, especially when you know that Allen is capable of much sharper construction.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9712/20/review.deconstructing.harry (943 words)

	Movie Gurus - The Movie Review Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“Deconstructing Harry” is probably Woody Allen’s last film project of a personal nature since his 1992 movie, “Husbands and Wives”.
		“Deconstructing Harry” also proved to be a departure from Allen’s usual oeuvre in that it has to be his most foul-mouthed effort to date.
		Harry Block and his various ex-wives, ex-lovers and friends are all potty mouths.
	www.movie-gurus.com /content/reviews/d/1017 (597 words)

	Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen Movie Review and Info
		Harry Block (Woody Allen) is a writer whose novels are no more than thinly disguised renditions of his personal life.
		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.
		The humor is dark and caustic, but well worth it; Deconstructing Harry is a near-brilliant mediation on the sometimes queasy relationship between art, creator, and critic.
	www.woodyallenmovies.com /movies/deconstructingharry.htm (400 words)

	Plot Summary for Deconstructing Harry (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Harry Block es un escritor en cuyos libros retrata sus crisis emocionales de forma tan precisa que muchas personas de la vida real se sienten directamente aludidas al leerlos.
	us.imdb.com /Plot?0118954 (287 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- The Trouble With `Harry' / New Woody Allen film funnier and more neurotic -- if that's possible
		The trouble with Harry Block is so ingrained in his nature that there's no possibility of a happy ending such as the ones Allen tacked onto his recent lesser efforts.
		Harry is a hopelessly neurotic writer who cheats on his wives (he's had three) and humiliates those closest to him by using them as fodder for his confessional-style novels.
		Harry's relatives are furious with him for mocking their religious practices by having the wife in his novel become an observant Jew.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=//chronicle/archive/1997/12/25/DD51209.DTL (714 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Deconstructing Harry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" uses a motif of jump cuts that mirrors the fragmented inner and outer lives of one Harry Block, played by Allen.
		Harry's universe is peopled by highly dysfunctional characters, real and invented, who labor under the illusion that they're fine, it's the rest of the world that has the problem.
		There's a story of mass murder and cannibalism that evokes self-conscious giggles and an odd sympathy for the murderer/gourmet who is at the mercy of his nagging, nudging wife.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/deconstructing-harry.html (398 words)

	Deconstructing Harry (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quotes: Harry Block: I'm a guy who can't function well in life but can in art.
		from Birmingham, UK Harry Block is a writer who tends to thinly veil his won life in his art.
		His tendency to mock his friends and family through similar characters in his work has left him with three ex-wives and a huge number of people who hate him.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0118954 (778 words)

	Deconstructing Harry
		To recommend Deconstructing Harry implies to warn you that you`ll be part of a sordid world of phobias, obsessions, fear of death, hypochondrias and neurosis, all of this wrapped up with a coat of vulgarity and repulsiveness that won't run out through the 96 minutes of the film.
		Just like Harry, Allen's life has been full of chaos and scandals, but he has proved, if anyone had a doubt, to be an exceptional artist.
		`Deconstructing Harry' could easily take a book or at least a long monograph in itself to explicate all the ideas going on in the real and fictional threads.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/0780622243/Deconstructing_Harry.html (2093 words)

	Deconstructing Harry movie review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is a lot of post-modern deconstruction going on, and the title of the movie is almost self-referential, both in terms of how the movie works, and Woody Allen's own lifestyle.
		The portrayal of Harry really caring about his pupil (Elizabeth Shue) and opposing his best friend's (Billy Crystal) involvement with her is cheesy.
		And it works not just because of the bitingly sarcastic manner that hypocrisies in religion and god are revealed, but because it is one aspect of Harry himself, and not limited to his imagination.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/deconstructing_harry.html (347 words)

	Movies: Deconstructing Harry - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		When the selfish, irreligious, compulsively promiscuous Harry tells us ''I never grew up,'' or ''I'm not a kind person,'' or even ''I'm evil,'' I don't think he's begging to be contradicted.
		The movie shows us scenes from Harry's life acted out by his fictional characters, who sometimes show up in his real life to challenge his complaints, while the real-life models lambast him for the pain caused by all that all-in-good-fun ribbing.
		Harry's neuroses reach critical mass when he's invited back to his old college to be honored.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/deconstructingharry.html (405 words)

	Review: Deconstructing Harry
		"Deconstructing Harry" is abrasive, complex, lacerating and self-revelator.
		This study of a hopelessly immature writer, significantly named Harry Block and played by Allen, is likely to divide audiences, with the majority appreciating the filmmaker's bold, confrontational use of fl comedy to expose the inner torments of his character.
		One of the major achievements of the film is that, though it is structured in a highly complex manner, juggling back and forth between the actions of real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, it is always crystal clear what's going on.
	torp.priv.no /woody/reviews/harry-variety.html (1079 words)

	Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Billy Crystal, Elisabeth Shue
		But, folks, his new movie, Deconstructing Harry, is Woody in full force, plus some.
		It seems Harry is headed back to his alma mater, a school that expelled him long ago, and now wants to make amends by honoring him.
		Deconstructing Harry is an incredibly funny movie, and, if you're a fan of Woody Allen, it's a gift that's long overdue.
	www.stairwell.com /doc/exam/deharry.html (1015 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| Deconstructing Harry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen is like every other Woody Allen movie: a succession of more or less good jokes bound together by an essentially puerile fantasy.
		Harry Block (Mr Allen) is a novelist who is forever mining his chaotic private life for material for his novels.
		Harry is bailed out by another friend, Larry (Billy Crystal), who has just married the lovely Fay (Elizabeth Shue)—the girlfriend for whom Harry had left Joan and whom he had wanted to marry.
	www.jamesbowman.net /review.asp?pubID=483 (726 words)

	Movie Review: Deconstructing Harry / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Deconstructing Harry portrays a side of the maestro that is more raunchy and sarcastic...
		Deconstructing Harry is the very noir, very Upper East Side tale of a successful writer with, uh, infidelity issues.
		Shrinks come and go (one of whom he marries), relatives come and go (most of whom he denigrates for being Jewish) – and Harry is forced to deconstruct himself in order to sort out his neurotic self from his genius.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/d/deconstructingharry.php (373 words)

	Deconstructing Harry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Woody plays Harry Block, a writer who puts everyone he's ever been close to in his books—slightly disguised, of course.
		Harry's fears, pains and frustrations are all revealed, and somehow we, the audience, feel it is the filmmaker himself who's baring his soul.
		Deconstructing Harry is rated R. Running time is 1 hr/35 min.
	www.toto.net /kcfilms/harry.html (276 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This transparently self-serving, thinly fictionalized film is Woody Allen's statement on the accusations of self-centeredness and scandalous impropriety leveled against him over the years, particularly since he began dating the adopted daughter of his longtime lover.
		Aging novelist Harry Block (Allen) has just penned a nominally fictionalized account of his affair with Lucy (Judy Davis), the younger sister of his wife Jane (Amy Irving), both of whom he subsequently abandoned for dewy literary groupie Fay (Elisabeth Shue).
		The furor the book causes among his former intimates leads Harry to consider his life of compulsive infidelity, and to complicate matters in a PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO sort of way, he encounters fictional versions of various wives, lovers and versions of himself.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=39635 (261 words)

	Deconstructing Harry
		Harry Block is a reputedly brilliant novelist who manages to alienate a steady stream of friends, (ex-) wives and (former) lovers through relentless pessimism and self-absorption.
		By the end of the movie, though, Harry's friends are treating him like a lovable old curmudgeon, and whatever edge his character had is rather deliberately softened.
		Finally, the movie lauds Harry's creative genius, arguing that even if Harry is a mess as a human being, he redeems himself through his art.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/deconstr.html (744 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Deconstructing Harry on DVD
		Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends.
		Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career.
		But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=913 (210 words)

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