Thursday, December 13, 2007
Time Out Movie Review: Deconstructing Harry
At the middle of every month, I will be posting a movie review and possibly an album review of my choice (you can of course send suggestions to gothamtimes@blogspot.com) and it will replace that day's installment of Time Out. This is the first of those review editions so enjoy!Deconstructing Harry:
Summary: Deconstructing Harry is about a short story writer fighting a bad case of writers block. All his pieces of work have real life references to people who have surrounded him over the years and they are starting to take notice (and are not too happy about it). Meanwhile he is having love life issues which seem to be at the core of all his problems. The story takes place at a time when his Alma Mater (who kicked him out before he graduated) is honoring him and he is going to take the trip to the ceremony but everything around him seems to be in chaos as he decides to.
Details: The cast is unbelievable. It is of course a Woody Allen film in which plays the lead. The rest of the cast consists of Robin Williams, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Demi Moore, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Toby Maguire and many more..
Review: There is a classic Woody Allen line every five lines. If you can figure out how the following scenario plays out without seeing the movie, you are a comedic genius and need to get into the business to bring about more gems like this: a writers block inflicted short story writer is driving up to an university that kicked him out before he graduated because they are honoring him. In the car with him is his kidnapped son, his dead friend, and a prostitute named cookie...The movie will keep you constantly enthralled and laughing and if you're not, you either don't have a pulse or you're Jay Payton (who I'm sure has never laughed before today this day and might not be laughing after the Mitchell Investigation comes out either ;) ).
Rating: 4.5/5
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