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- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 2 h
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 2 h
Summary Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
Directed By: Paul Newman
Written By: Ronald Buck, Raymond DeCapite, Paul Newman
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 2 h
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 2 h
Harry & Son
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Summary Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
Directed By: Paul Newman
Written By: Ronald Buck, Raymond DeCapite, Paul Newman
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
By the end, we can guess what Newman was up to, and how warm a story he meant to make. But nothing comes together until one of the characters is written out, and by that time, it is almost always too late. [02 Mar 1984, p.D1]
Benson is as annoyingly untalented as ever, and the film is definitely overlong, bordering on the dull.
It would take a more expert director than Newman to pull the lumpy Harry & Son screenplay into shape, with its many trite scenes that can't decide whether they're funny or sad or in between. [19 Apr 1984, p.25]
Newman has certainly directed well in the past (Rachel, Rachel), but he flounders helplessly here, unable to find a tone or a shape for his comical-mawkish story. [12 Mar 1984, p.89]
A curiously indigestible phenomenon, like being forced to eat five courses of avocado by an overbearing dinner-party host.
Fuzzily conceived and indecisively executed, Harry & Son represents a deeply disappointing return to the director's chair for Paul Newman. Cowritten and coproduced by the star as well, pic [suggested by the novel A Lost King by Raymond DeCapite] never makes up its mind who or what it wants to be about and, to compound the problem, never finds a proper style in which to convey the tragicomic events that transpire.
The movie might have worked if it had been a satire of those awful made-for-TV Family Problem Movies.
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Production Company
Orion Pictures
Release Date Mar 2, 1984
Duration 2 h
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Two men with nothing in common . . . except the blood in their veins.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
