Wild About Harry

2000
1h 31m

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A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.

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6.0/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
The film has a pre-screen test at the Prince Charles Cinema in London

Quotes
Ruth McKee: [Turns on car radio]
Harry McKee: ...sex, both inside and outside of marriage? Research has shown that men think about sex an average of once every three minutes. To which I can only respond "Is that all?"
Harry McKee: [Turns up the volume]
Radio commentator: What is it about middle aged modern man to turn his mind back to those halcyon days when sex was free and the living was easy, even when it wasn't? You may blame it on the permissive society, you may blame it on equality, you may even blame it on Mr. and Mrs. Braithwaite in number 24 who used to bounce naked on the trampoline in their back garden when impressionable fourteen year olds were walking home from school, but the fact is that when I was growing up sex was everywhere. If you weren't doing it you were talking about it, and if you weren't talking about it you were fantasizing about it, and if you weren't fantasizing about it you were probably a Liverpool supporter, which was total fulfillment in itself and had the added advantage that you were not having to keep your bedroom door locked.

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References The Waltons (1972)

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Welcome Home
Performed by Brendan Gleeson
Written by Dupre, Beldone, Blackburn
Licensed by kind permission of Rive Droite Music, France

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6/10

Fun but lightweight

The idea of amnesia offering you a chance to rebuild your life has been explored in films such as 'Amateur' and 'The Red Squirrel', and is also the subject of this movie. I'm not sure how realistic the medical symptoms are in any of these movies, but it makes for a nice premise, and the take here is particularly ingenious: a famous but awful man loses his memories of his entire married life just as his wife is about to (quite deservedly) divorce him. Unfortunately, although this is a sprightly movie, it's also a silly one, and most of its conceits are paper-thin. It's still fun to watch, though, in spite of its lightweight build.