
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. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces th... (Full plot summary below)
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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. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister.
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| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordBy turns clever, devestating, bitter and delightful, this challenging piece of work is easily one of Allen's most mature efforts to date. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinWoody Allen's strongest and most mordantly funny movie in years, even if it is also his bleakest. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is in many ways his most revealing film, his most painful, and if it also contains more than his usual quotient of big laughs, what was it the man said? "We laugh, that we may not cry." |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA bravura act of self-revelation, its vivid portrait of one man's fears, fantasies and neuroses uses a mixture of reality, imagination and comedy to create one of the writer-director's most involving films. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellThis poisonous, brazenly autobiographical comedy shows off the best of Mr. Allen's misanthropic humor. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDeconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyIn this nasty, verbose comedy, Woody Allen the director has cast Woody Allen the actor as a foul-mouthed, self-absorbed, sex-obsessed writer. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenWoody Allen is back in sharp comic form, though it's likely that his abrasive black comedy Deconstructing Harry will alienate as many people as it tickles. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's a movie of moments, some of which are side-splittingly funny. Arguably, this is the most uproarious comedy that Allen has ever done. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThen along comes a movie like Deconstructing Harry, which marks the writer/director/actor's return to top form, once again using the stuff of his life to create the stuff of his fiction. |