Wild About Harry
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild About Harry |
| Original title | Wild About Harry |
| Country of production |
Great Britain , Ireland , Germany , Denmark |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Declan Lowney |
| script | Colin Bateman |
| production |
Laurie Borg Robert Cooper |
| music | Murray Gold |
| camera | Ron Fortunato |
| cut | Tim Waddell |
| occupation | |
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Wild About Harry (alternatively: Wild About Harry - A cook goes crazy ) is a British-German-Irish-Danish comedy directed by Declan Lowney from 2000 .
action
Harry McKee is a successful television chef for a regional broadcaster. Although he has been in the newspapers a lot because of his alcoholic chap, he is very popular with viewers. In his private life, however, things look different for him: his wife Ruth, whom he has betrayed several times, wants to divorce him. Somewhat emotionally agitated, he exposes local politician Walter Adair in his cooking show by making fun of his sexual preferences. Harry collapses in the ensuing court case, in which the details of his divorce are to be clarified.
When he wakes up after a few days in a coma , Harry suffers from amnesia. The last 25 years seem to have been erased from his memory. He is now in the same hospital as the politician Adair, who has had to seek treatment since fleeing from intrusive journalists and falling from a bridge.
Although Harry's wife and children do not really want to believe him and consider amnesia to be a ploy to delay the divorce, they take him back home. Using old photo albums, they try to refresh his memory. On the advice of the doctors, however, they hide his TV cooking career from him.
However, he is informed about this by his friend and lawyer. He also learns from him that his wife wants to divorce him. Although Harry's complete memory has not yet come back, his unit manager urges him to get back to the cooking shows. During the first show a viewer suddenly disrupts the process. It is Walter Adair, disguised as a woman, who draws a gun and threatens Harry. The program will then also go live on national channels. The cook, meanwhile refined, is about to give himself up to his fate, when suddenly Ruth appears. After she succeeds in disarming Adair, she promises Harry to make up with him again. However, she insists on the divorce and challenges him to reconsider his life. Only when he was absolutely sure that he wanted a future together with her should he contact her again. Harry predicts that he will contact her that same day and ends - as if nothing had happened - his cooking show by announcing the guests of the next show.
background
The film was first shown on October 5, 2000 at the Dinard Festival of British Cinema . The film was shot in County Down , Northern Ireland.
criticism
Cinema finds that the film is a "successful family farce, which, thanks to the particularly good-humored main actor, has a great sense of British humor."
In the Guardian, however , Peter Bradshaw describes the film as just a nice idea. Harry would regain his memory too quickly so that no interesting development would take place. The bittersweet pain has to give way to an extended feel-good comedy and an everyday subplot with a miscast James Nesbitt.
Web links
- Wild About Harry in the Internet Movie Database (English)