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The Plot Against Harry is an American comedy film directed by Michael Roemer. The plot involves Harry Plotnick, a small-time Jewish gangster living in a now largely Hispanic and African American New York neighborhood, playing the numbers game after being released from prison.
May 16, 1990 · A former Jewish mobster returns to his old neighborhood after prison and faces betrayal and racism. The film, shot in black-and-white in the 1960s, won six Independent Spirit Awards in 1990.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Michael Roemer
- 1990-05-16
Aug 23, 2023 · Richard Brody reviews the 1969 film “The Plot Against Harry,” directed by Michael Roemer, which is being screened at Film Forum in a new restoration.
Dour Jewish mobster Harry Plotnick is finally released from prison after two decades. Returning to a very different world, Harry tries to ease back into his criminal ways on...
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- Martin Priest
- Michael Roemer
- Comedy, Drama
Feb 16, 1990 · Harry Plotnick is a low-level hoodlum who finds his life turned upside down by unexpected events and family secrets. Read Roger Ebert's review of this quirky and funny film that was made in 1970 but released in 1990.
After two decades behind bars, low-level racketeer Harry Plotnick (memorably cow-eyed Martin Priest) is released into a changed city he hardly recognizes. As he attempts to reconnect with his estranged family, he finds himself launched on a subtly surreal journey through an unfamiliar, middle-class world that seems to have no place for him.
Aug 22, 2023 · In the New York Times, Wesley Morris called the film “a masterpiece of direction, nothing too flashy but everything true, right.”. Now the Film Desk is launching a new 4K restoration of Roemer’s brisk and oddly endearing 1969 comedy, The Plot Against Harry.
