Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough, with one of his psychiatrists), and .. Read more
| Starring | Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough, with one of his psychiatrists), and he has precious few friends whom he hasn't alienated or betrayed. Harry uses the chaos of his life as fodder for his writing, angering his friends, lovers, and family, who find thinly veiled (and rarely flattering) portraits of themselves in his work. Drowning his growing misery in pills and sex, Harry finds himself invited to receive an award at a college in upstate New York which he attended, but never graduated from. However, he has a hard time finding anyone who will attend the weekend-long symposium with him: his girlfriend Fay (Elisabeth Shue) has just left him to marry his friend Larry (Billy Crystal); his best friend Richard (Bob Balaban) is afraid he's about to have a heart attack; his former wife/analyst Joan (Kirstie Alley) refuses to let him take their son, and his one-time sister-in-law Lucy (Judy Davis) is literally ready to kill him. Undaunted, Harry hires a hooker, Cookie (Hazelle Goodman), kidnaps his son, forces Richard to come along, and heads upstate, where disaster awaits. A stellar cast appears in small roles and episodes from Harry's stories, including Robin Williams, Demi Moore, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eric Bogosian, Amy Irving, Richard Benjamin, Mariel Hemingway, and Julie Kavner.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Elisabeth Shue, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Judy Davis, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Stanley Tucci, Caroline Aaron, Juli, Tobey, T |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Studio | WESTEND FILMS |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1997 To Rent: DVD: not available To Buy: DVD: 15 Jun 2006 |
Witty, discursive comedy, shuttling between the realities of a novelist's life and the fictions he makes from them; it has some excellent jokes and moments of hilarious farce, but there is no centre to hold it all together.
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One of Allen's finest, certainly his most revealing
Woody Allen's extraordinary film is one of the most self-critical and revealing films I've seen for some time. Allen stars as Harry Block, a writer who ... read more »
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not the best
very dissappointing from woody
its actually quite disjointed
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Another Allen classic.
I love this film. It has all the Woody Allen traits needed to be a classic. Especially love the fight between him and his ex-wife. We actually hear the 'C&#... read more »
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Nothings perfect.......
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