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Release Date:
25 April 1979 (USA)
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Tagline:
Woody Allen's New Comedy Hit
Plot:
A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 13 wins
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15 nominations
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(24 articles)
Woody Allen to Open Tribeca Film Festival
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(From Get The Big Picture. 3 March 2009, 4:49 PM, PST)
Joaquin Phoenix Makes Awkward Appearance on Letterman
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Woody's masterpiece, perhaps...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Woody Allen | ... | Isaac |
 | Diane Keaton | ... | Mary |
 | Michael Murphy | ... | Yale |
 | Mariel Hemingway | ... | Tracy |
 | Meryl Streep | ... | Jill |
 | Anne Byrne Hoffman | ... | Emily (as Anne Byrne) |
 | Karen Ludwig | ... | Connie |
| Michael O'Donoghue | ... | Dennis |
| Victor Truro | ... | Party Guest |
| Tisa Farrow | ... | Party Guest |
| Helen Hanft | ... | Party Guest |
| Bella Abzug | ... | Guest of Honor |
 | Gary Weis | ... | Television Director |
| Kenny Vance | ... | Television Producer |
| Charles Levin | ... | Television Actor #1 |
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96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Portugal:M/12 |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
UK:12A (re-rating) (2006) |
Netherlands:AL |
Brazil:12 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Ireland:18 |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 (video rating) (1987) |
UK:AA (original rating) |
USA:R |
West Germany:12
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This was Woody Allen's first film shot using the widescreen (2.35:1) anamorphic Panavision process.
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Factual errors: Mark Linn-Baker appears to be credited as Mary Linn-Baker.
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Isaac Davis:
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.
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Referenced in Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) (V)
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He Loves, and She Loves
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Manhattan has long been my favourite Woody Allen movie: it always seemed to me the perfect sythesis of his humour, neurosis and insight, the quintessential (moneyed, intellectual) New York story played out against a magnificent Gershwin score and Gordon Willis' achingly lush, romantic cinematography.
Having not watched it in many years, I took it out again last night. Much of my hero-worship of the movie remains: add to the above the almost flawless performances (particularly Mariel Hemingway's heart-breaking vulnerability) and some of Woody's finest barbs... but... Like many stories first seen or read when young, the pleasures now are different. I no longer know how Woody feels about his characters. His New York coterie always seemed shallow and self obsessed, unable to commit, unaware that life might exist outside their charmed circle; time was, I thought this was urbane and real, now it seems facile and catty. I disliked most of the characters this time round - particularly Isaac, whose whingeing self-absorption, though funny, is calculating and selfish. Only Hemingway's pathologically ingenuous Tracy seems gifted with any real (ie not intellectualised) emotion, above all, she is the only one with hope, though Allen clearly feels that with time, this will pass.
My changed feelings towards the characters in no way dimishes the power of the film; if anything, the abilty to see them again and react to them with the hindsight of my own age and experience, deepens it... much in the way when I last reread Anna Karenina, I though Anna a shallow, petulant, fool and suddenly realised why Tolstoy married 'Kitty'.