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    Deconstructing Harry (1997)

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    Woody Allen’s tumultuous private life seems to spill sourly into this bad-taste story about a novelist, Harry Block (Allen), whose friends and relatives are used as thinly-disguised characters in his books, despite screams of protest from those he exploits (Judy Davis and Kirstie Alley among them).

    But they can’t hate him more than he hates himself, as a fantasy sequence with the Devil (Billy Crystal) makes plain.

    Block is suffering from a lack of inspiration for his latest book and is as out of focus with life as actor Robin Williams is – literally – out of focus in one of the film’s funniest ideas.

    Told via flashbacks, as Block travels to his old school to be honoured – a homage to Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries – rarely has Allen’s use of a movie as a psychiatrist’s couch been quite so evident.

    Harry Block
    Woody Allen
    Joan
    Kirstie Alley
    Doris
    Caroline Aaron
    Richard
    Bob Balaban
    Ken
    Richard Benjamin
    Burt
    Eric Bogosian
    Larry
    Billy Crystal
    Lucy
    Judy Davis
    Cookie
    Hazelle Goodman
    Beth Kramer
    Mariel Hemingway
    Jane
    Amy Irving
    Grace
    Julie Kavner
    Leslie
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Harvey Stern
    Tobey Maguire
    Helen
    Demi Moore
    Fay
    Elisabeth Shue
    Paul Epstein
    Stanley Tucci
    Mel
    Robin Williams

    Director
    Woody Allen

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