Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

National General Pictures
Directed by Ulu Grosbard
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
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Dustin Hoffman, a successful songwriter, is entering middle age and having a nervous breakdown. He lives alone in a penthouse apartment in NYC. Girls come and go in his life but a mysterious man, Harry Kellerman, sabotages the relationships before they can start. Flashbacks reveal a troubled previous marriage marred by infidelity. Hoffman starts hallucinating, his psychiatrist breaks out in song in the middle of a session, then becomes suicidal. It has its awkward moments, most of the scenes with the psychiatrist for example, but from the moment Barbara Harris appears at an audition the remainder of the film is pure cinematic bliss.

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