Deconstructing Harry
Written, Directed and Starring Woody Allen
With Robin Williams, Amy Irving, Billy Crystal, Kirstie Alley, Richard Benjamin, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, and Mariel Hemingway
1997
Woody Allen has a small, very loyal, audience, enough to keep him making movies on a regular basis. I've not seen all of his recent works, but did enjoy this one immensely, perhaps the capstone to his career.
With substantial poetic license this is Allen's ode to himself - he plays a poetic version of himself, a writer about to be honored by the school that kicked him out as a youth for his lifetime accomplishments. However the life of this fictional character is not so smooth, he's just written a book in which virtually all of his life's relationships can find themselves portrayed - in not flattering terms.
Thank god Mr. Allen has plenty of friends willing to make a movie with him, combined with his writing this will truly be a classic. The 'out of focus' character played by Robin Williams is shere cinemagraphic comedic genius.
