Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Judy Davis | ... | Lucy | |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Leslie | |
Stephanie Roth Haberle | ... | Janet (as Stephanie Roth) | |
Dan Frazer | ... | Janet's Dad | |
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Joel Leffert | ... | Norman |
Lynn Cohen | ... | Janet's Mom | |
Richard Benjamin | ... | Ken | |
Joe Buck | ... | Yankee Announcer (voice) | |
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Jane Hoffman | ... | Grandma |
Woody Allen | ... | Harry Block | |
Tobey Maguire | ... | Harvey Stern | |
Annette Arnold | ... | Rosalee | |
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Frederick Rolf | ... | Harvey's Doctor |
Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord | ... | Rosalee's Sister | |
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Lortensia Hayes | ... | Jennifer |
Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Very funny, very coarse, very Woody Allen. This movie not only has autobiographical elements, Harry Block to a large extent is Woody Allen himself. I think never a director exposed the weaknesses of his own "ego" as mercilessly as Woody did in this film, descending into the deepest layers of the "id", into the very depths of hell (literally, with all the molten lava and sulfur smoke that go with it)! But Woody Allen covers this merciless exercise of psychoanalysis with a thick cover of humor. It is also a very funny movie!