Deconstructing Harry
Deconstructing Harry is a comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen and released in 1997. This film tells the story of a successful writer named Harry Block, played by Allen, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
One night, Lucy Judy Davis gets a taxi to the home of author Harry Block Woody Allen. She has just read Harrys latest novel. In the novel, the character Leslie Julia LouisDreyfus is having an affair with her sisters husband Ken Richard Benjamin. Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harrys own affair as a result, everyone knows about it. Lucy pulls a gun out of her purse, saying she will kill herself. She then turns the gun on Harry and begins firing. She chases him out onto the roof. Harry insists that he has already been punished his latest girlfriend Fay Elisabeth Shue has left him for his best friend Larry Billy Crystal. To distract Lucy, Harry tells her a story he is currently writing a semiautobiographical story of a sexobsessed young man named Harvey Tobey Maguire who is mistakenly claimed by Death.In therapy, Harry realizes he has not changed since he was a sexobsessed youth. Harry discusses the honoring ceremony at his old university, taking place the next day he is particularly unhappy that he has nobody to share the occasion with. After the session, Harry asks his exwife Joan Kirstie Alley if he can take their son Hilliard Eric Lloyd to the ceremony. She refuses, stating that Harry is a bad influence on Hilliard. She is also furious at Harry for the novel he wrote. In it, the character Epstein Stanley Tucci marries Helen Demi Moore, but the marriage begins to crumble after the birth of their son. ........
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