harry & son

Director: paul newman

Actor: paul newman,robby benson,ellen barkin,wilford brimley

Data Published: Fri Mar 02 1984

Genres: Drama

Key Words: writer,written and directed by cast member,punctuation in title,ampersand in title,pet shop

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087386/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_%26_Son

Description: Harry & Son is a movie starring Paul Newman, Robby Benson, and Ellen Barkin. Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

Plot: Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker in Southern Florida who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical and sometimes hedonistic lifestyle, in his early twenties and devoted to a dead-end part-time job, surfing, chasing girls, and hot-tubbing while he dreams of becoming the next Ernest Hemingway. Harry also has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina because he dislikes her husband, an insurance salesman, and he thinks Nina has become stuck up now that she has married a more affluent man. When intense headaches and impaired vision cause Harry to lose control of the wrecking ball on his crane, he loses his job. His unemployment leaves him feeling frustrated, although he refuses to work in his brother Tom's military surplus store. He becomes increasingly angry at Howard for quitting jobs at a car wash and with an auto-repo outfit and threatens to throw his son out of the house. Harry spends some of his free time visiting his widowed neighbor Lilly, a pet store owner who was good friends with his deceased wife, has loved Harry for years. Her daughter Katie, a former high school girlfriend of Howard who he broke up with due to rumors of her being promiscuous, is now pregnant with another man's child. After being abandoned by her lover, Katie's relationship with Howard rekindles. He is resisting the advances of a nymphomaniacal older woman, Sally, but eventually introduces her to Harry. Howard succeeds in selling a short story, much to his father's amazement. He uses some of the money to finance a vacation for Harry, Lilly, Katie and her newborn baby (also called Harry). Harry begins to experience happiness at last, until tragedy strikes.