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by Stephen_Murray  in Movies,  - Top 100, Jul 15 '02
Pros: ending, look, sound
Cons: violence
The name "Hitchcock" comes up often in discussions of "With a Friend Like Harry" or "Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien" ("Harry, a friend who would do good," or, more idiomatically, "Helpful Harry") directed by the German-born Dominik Moll. The...
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by laura10801 - Top 1000, Jun 04 '01
Pros: Suspenseful, well acted.
Cons: Subtitles
What if you idolized someone in high school and ran into them 20+ years later? Assuming you recognized them, how would you act? What if someone you had absolutely no memory of remembered you? What if they remembered you very, very well? Think of the...
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by susidee34 - Top 200, Oct 01 '02
Pros: Harry is definitely someone to have on your side
Cons: Harry
aka With A Friend Like Harry
Michel & Claire are just barely making it – three young daughters, a car on the blink, struggling to convert the old family farm into living quarters. They are doing OK, but not tops. While on the...
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by nwinston - Top 500, May 06 '01
Pros: Wonderfully suspenseful movie. Keeps you intrigued with little action.
Cons: French with subtitles.
Birth of obsession is difficult to trace. You may touch
someone's life profoundly, yet not remember them at all.
Some events which hold import for others may be but a
footnote in your history. The classic reunion story
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by j_christley , May 03 '01
Pros: Sergi López; direction; fine characterizations
Cons: The foregone conclusion
All things being equal, the movie antagonist you can recognize from real life is scarier than the one who's merely an exaggeration, or a grounds-up fabrication. It's far more disturbing to think that you might run into the villain at work the next day,...
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by SusanGranger - Top 1000, Jun 13 '01
Pros: Droll, deceptive, insidious black comedy about threatened family relationships
Cons: Director Dominik Moll falls into the cliche trap and there's a weak conclusion.
Harry's like a subversively black comedy version of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" as interpreted by German-born, France-based director Dominik Moll via Alfred Hitchcock with nods to French film-makers Henri-George Clouzot and Claude Chabrol.
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by NoniaBidnis , May 13 '01
Pros: suspense and tensions throughout, well-cast and well-directed, good story
Cons: French with subtitles (which I don't mind, but some do)
This is one of those movie titles that sets up a certain expectation before the viewing even begins... we are already aware that there is gonna be something weird about Harry and suspect he really isn't the kind of person you want as a friend. Aha....
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by BillTK , Jun 03 '01
Pros: Good set-up and mood, some of the acting some of the time. The music.
Cons: Screenplay declines dramatically in believability toward the last third.
Heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, With a Friend Like Harry is able to coast passably for most of its screen time due to such a rigorously studied and faithful adherence to that great filmmaker’s style. A nicely copied Bernard Hermann-like...
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by thornhill , Apr 30 '01
Pros: Great suspense and atmosphere.
Cons: A bit implausible at times, but still workable.
Michel and his wife are making their annual trek to a rural farmhouse they purchased a few years ago in the French countryside. Every summer, they spend their vacation there, fixing it up. Their three young girls sit in the back seat of the hot car,...
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by sussmanbern , Jul 08 '01
Pros: Good photography, acting, editing, etc.
Cons: Not redubbed in English, subtitles are sometimes hard to read and always annoying.
A FRIEND LIKE HARRY (also known under other titles, such as Harry Is Here To Help) is labelled a thriller, but I don't think it's so much a thriller as a chiller.
Michel (whom I'll call Mike) and his wife Claire and their three little...
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by Sgtshultz , May 18 '01
Pros: Story
Cons: I took Spanish in High School
The term HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLER is used with all too much simplicity these days. However, with WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY you can not avoid it. It is as if the big bald fat guy himself rose from the dead and directed this movie.
Like PSYCHO...
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by baboonvideo , Feb 06 '02
Pros: Dominik Mol's unsettling film harks back to the work of Hitchcock.
Cons: Hollywood will no doubt ruin it with a remake.
Ever had one of those friends who wanted nothing more than to help you out, even if every time they tried to do so they only made things worse?
If not, consider yourself lucky. If so, the subtitled French drama With a Friend Like Harry… will...
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by codsall , May 21 '01
Pros: Good suspense & Acting
Cons: None that I can think of.
The premise of this movie follows a French family on their way to their summer home. On the way, Michel (the father) runs into an old school acquaintance (Harry) who ingratiates himself into the family. The ever present Harry begins to unravel as he...
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by Leprof , Jun 02 '01
Pros: Intriguing, ambiguous, full of possibilities
Cons: can't think of any
When I first saw this movie I was disturbed and upset. I remember thinking at one point "if he goes near the children, I'm leaving". And then I got caught, not in the suspense that, as some viewers have pointed out, is not that suspenseful, but at the...
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by jonesmon , Jun 25 '01
Pros: superb acting, story which keeps you in suspense.
Cons: French titles
This is a very chilling film by French director Dominik Moll. Harry(Sergi Lopez) runs into an old friend, Michel(Laurent Lucas) while Michel is on vacation. with his family. Harry becomes sinister to rekindle a frienddhip that never existed. Harry is...
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