Synopsis
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
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Cast
- Caroline AaronDoris
- Woody AllenHarry Block
- Kirstie AlleyJoan
- Bob BalabanRichard
- Richard BenjaminKen
- Eric BogosianBurt
- Billy CrystalLarry / The Devil
- Judy DavisLucy
- Hazelle GoodmanCookie
- Mariel HemingwayBeth Kramer
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Woody Allen's strongest and most mordantly funny movie in years, even if it is also his bleakest. - 90
The New York Times
This poisonous, brazenly autobiographical comedy shows off the best of Mr. Allen's misanthropic humor. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
This 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." - 80
Film Threat
I've never been a fan, but in the space of a couple hours the Woodster gives both an explanation AND the finger to ALL of his critics. This is mean-spirited fun, just the way we like it! - 78
Austin Chronicle
Then 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. - 75
ReelViews
It's a movie of moments, some of which are side-splittingly funny. Arguably, this is the most uproarious comedy that Allen has ever done. - 70
Slate
The film is smutty-mouthed and jumpy and free-associative, and Allen does everything but hurl his feces at the audience. The result is more rambunctious--and more fun--than any movie he has made in years. - 60
Salon
A fever dream about an aging, grasping, neurotic artist who brings his disastrous personal life, thinly veiled, into his work and ends up as a grotesque caricature of himself, alienating everyone who ever loved him.
