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Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry

1997Movie⏱️ 1h 36mR🏆 #1845 Top Rated
Comedy
7.3
IMDB Rating
50,159 votes

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

Director
Woody Allen
Writers
N/A
Stars
Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Release Date
January 2, 1998
Language
English, Hebrew
Country
United States
🏆 4
Wins
🎯 6
Nominations
💬 157
Reviews
📋 50.6K
Watchlists
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Woody Allen
Woody Allen
as Harry Block
Judy Davis
Judy Davis
as Lucy
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
as Leslie
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Stephanie Roth Haberle
as Janet
Dan Frazer
Dan Frazer
as Janet's Dad
Joel Leffert
Joel Leffert
as Norman
Lynn Cohen
Lynn Cohen
as Janet's Mom
Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin
as Ken
Joe Buck
Joe Buck
as Yankee Announcer
👤
Jane Hoffman
as Grandma

💰 Box Office

$10,686,841
Worldwide Gross
$10,686,841
Domestic Gross
$356,476
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Filming Location
Drew University - 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, New Jersey, USA
Production
Sweetland Films, Jean Doumanian Productions

🏷️ Keywords

man wears eyeglassesreference to pepsitwo word titlewritten and directed by cast membercharacter name in title

🎯 Categories

Dark ComedyQuirky ComedyComedy

⭐ Featured Review

Really funny, but also really bitter and full of apparent self-loathing
by bob the moo2002-01-31

"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. He lives a lonely life and has a penchant for pills and whore (prostitution being pure and totally free of BS). When his college plans to honour him he finds he has no-one who wants to go with him, so he ‘kidnaps' his son, a black whore and an old friend with him. As the characters from his work come and go around him, he finds that he struggles to make amen..."

💡 Did You Know?

Albert Brooks was the last actor to be offered the role of Harry. In an interview with Playboy magazine, he stated that he received a nice letter from Woody Allen offering him the role. Brooks responded, "It was insane that Allen didn't do it himself." Apparently, Woody took his advice.

📖 Synopsis

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.