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词条 Harry & Son
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Reception

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = Harry & Son
| image = Harry&Son.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Original poster
| director = Paul Newman
| producer = Paul Newman
and Ronald L. Buck
| writer = Ronald L. Buck
and Paul Newman
| narrator =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
  • Paul Newman
  • Robby Benson
  • Ellen Barkin
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Judith Ivey
  • Ossie Davis
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Katherine Borowitz
  • Maury Chaykin
  • Joanne Woodward

}}
| music = Henry Mancini
| cinematography = Donald McAlpine, A.S.C.
| editing = Dede Allen, A.C.E.
| studio =
| distributor = Orion Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1984|03|02}}
| runtime = 117 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $4,864,980[1]
}}

Harry & Son is a 1984 American drama film directed by Paul Newman, who also stars. The screenplay by Newman and Ronald Buck focuses on the relationship between a blue-collar worker and his son (Robby Benson), who fails at various odd jobs while aspiring to be a writer.

Joanne Woodward, Ellen Barkin, Ossie Davis, Wilford Brimley and Judith Ivey also star. The film also features Morgan Freeman in an early role.

Much of the film was shot in Lake Worth, Florida.{{cn|date=May 2016}} The movie set construction site was the demolition of the sister hotel affiliated with the Gulf Stream Hotel named The Inn.{{cn|date=May 2016}}

Plot

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker in Southern Florida who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical and sometimes hedonistic lifestyle, in his early twenties and devoted to a dead-end part-time job, surfing, chasing girls, and hot-tubbing while he dreams of becoming the next Ernest Hemingway. Harry also has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina because he dislikes her husband, an insurance salesman, and he thinks Nina has become stuck up now that she has married a more affluent man.

When intense headaches and impaired vision cause Harry to lose control of the wrecking ball on his crane, he loses his job. His unemployment leaves him feeling frustrated, although he refuses to work in his brother Tom's military surplus store. He becomes increasingly angry at Howard for quitting jobs at a car wash and with an auto-repo outfit and threatens to throw his son out of the house.

Harry spends some of his free time visiting his widowed neighbor Lilly, a pet store owner who was good friends with his deceased wife, has loved Harry for years. Her daughter Katie, a former high school girlfriend of Howard who he broke up with due to rumors of her being promiscuous, is now pregnant with another man's child.

After being abandoned by her lover, Katie's relationship with Howard rekindles. He is resisting the advances of a nymphomaniacal older woman, Sally, but eventually introduces her to Harry.

Howard succeeds in selling a short story, much to his father's amazement. He uses some of the money to finance a vacation for Harry, Lilly, Katie and her newborn baby (also called Harry). Harry begins to experience happiness at last, until tragedy strikes.

Cast

  • Paul Newman - Harry
  • Robby Benson - Howard
  • Ellen Barkin - Katie
  • Wilford Brimley - Tom
  • Judith Ivey - Sally
  • Ossie Davis - Raymond
  • Morgan Freeman - Siemanowski
  • Katherine Borowitz - Nina
  • Maury Chaykin - Lawrence
  • Joanne Woodward as Lilly
  • Tom Nowicki         Jimmy
  • Bunny Yeager         Marina Bar Waitress
  • Stan Barrett         Stunt Coordinator

Reception

Vincent Canby of the New York Times called the film "a decently intentioned but rather drab mess of a movie" and added, "Mr. Newman has done creditable work as a director before . . . but Harry and Son looks like a first effort, partly because the screenplay has no focus and no particular tone of voice . . . Though the characters use a lot of words that are still taboo on television, the entire project feels as small and dated as a Studio One show of the 1950s."[2]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film one star and commented, "This movie looks like the aftermath of an explosion in the story department. It's about everything. They give us so many relationships, so many problems, so many emotional hazards, so many colorful characters, we need a battery-lighted ballpoint, so we can take notes in the dark."[3]

Although Time Out London felt the film was "well acted and elegantly photographed," it thought overall "It is nothing more than a constant succession of the kind of emotional peaks actors love to do on screen. Humbler scenes involving background or narrative, which may be immensely tedious to act but help the plot unfold, have in general been left out altogether. The result is a curiously indigestible phenomenon, like being forced to eat five courses of avocado by an overbearing dinner-party host."[4]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 22%, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 3.9/10.[5] Robby Benson's performance in the film earned him a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor.{{cn|date=May 2016}}

References

1. ^{{Mojo title|harryandson}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9403E4D91439F931A35750C0A962948260|last=Canby|first=Vincent|title=Screen: 'Harry and Son', With Paul Newman|work=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=March 2, 1984|accessdate=April 9, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|authorlink=Roger Ebert|work=RogerEbert.com|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC|accessdate=April 9, 2018|title=Harry & Son |date=January 1, 1984}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/71754/harry-son.html|author=DP|title=Harry & Son|work=Time Out London|publisher=Time Out Group|accessdate=April 9, 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_and_son |title=Harry & Son (1984) |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |accessdate=April 9, 2018}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0087386}}
  • {{Amg movie|21621|Harry & Son}}
  • {{rotten-tomatoes|harry_and_son|Harry and Son}}
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