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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? is a movie released in 1971 starring Dustin Hoffman. It portrays a single day in life of Georgie Soloway, played by Hoffman. The best known quote from this movie is by Soloway's dying father: "Life is like an appetizer: it's here, it's gone." The film features unusual cinematography and proceeds at a snail's pace: the entire movie is about events that take place in a single day.
"A Boy Named Sue" by Johny Cash was featured on the soundtrack to this movie.
Georgie Soloway is a rock music composer who experiences personal conflicts when trying to track down a man named Harry Kellerman, who had been spreading outrageous lies about him. Soloway is the man who has everything. He is on top of the world. One night, struggling with insomnia, he begins to examine his life more closely. A love song writer, it dawns on him that the relationships of his own life are loveless and drain his levels of creativity.
Enter Harry Kellerman. The anonymous man is spreading rumors about Soloway, and Soloway has to find him. He begins to obsess over this reckoning, and soon forgets about his own life's misery.
This movie is a bizarre stream of consciousness filled with both comedy and human drama. Seen as pretentious by many when it was released, it is still not widely appreciated in the current day. The film was rated R for language and nudity
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