Deconstructing Harry (1997) on Netflix
Novelist Harry Block draws his fiction from friends, lovers and ex-wives, and they resent it. Blocked, due to be honored by the college that expelled him, he has no one to bring.
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Plot summary
Harry Block has built a career on fiction taken from the people around him, and the people who recognize themselves in it have turned away from him. His half-sister Doris dislikes how he writes about her faith, and his girlfriend Fay has left him for his friend Larry. He is blocked on his writing, and he is due upstate at Adair University, the college that expelled him as a student, to be honored with no one to take along. He asks his ex-wife Joan whether their son Hilliard can come; she refuses. Characters out of his own stories keep appearing beside him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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- Woody Allen offered the role of Harry Block to Elliott Gould, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper and Albert Brooks, but all four turned it down, so Allen played the part himself.
