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Actors: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about With A Friend Like Harry |
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Michel (Lucas) and Claire (Seigner) are off to their summer farm in the mountains with their three young, contentious daughters. All is not well in the family, the marriage, and with his overbearing parents. On the way, Michel runs into an acquaintance from high school: Harry, independently wealthy after his father's death, with a curvy young thing (Sophie Guillemen, looking a bit like Jodie Foster's simple-minded but luscious kid sister) in his hot car. Harry invites himself and his girl up to the isolated farmhouse. Turns out he was just knocked out by Michel's writing in school -- he can still quote one of his classmate's poems from memory -- and is very disappointed that Michel hasn't kept up his writing. Harry decides to remove all the obstacles he sees to Michel's becoming the writer he should be. As bodies begin to pile up, the mood and the suspense are gently but firmly Hitchcockian. Note that lovely Mathilde Seigner, who plays the puzzled but supportive wife, is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner (Bitter Moon, Place Vendome), and that Guillemen's character, called "Plum" throughout the film, is identified as "Prune" in the final credits, maybe because by that time she's ... oh, never mind.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Horror film?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- aggressive
- sad
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- mentally ill
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Body type
- fat (man)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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