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  • Crimes And Misdemeanors
  • Crimes And Misdemeanors review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Outstanding Woody Allen film 25 May 2004
    ...tory concerns a TV director(Allen) who's making a film about a pompous producer(Alan Alda) and also competing with him for the affections of Mia Farrow. To say much m...   Read customer review
  • Manhattan Murder Mystery
  • Manhattan Murder Mystery review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Woody's most under-rated film 24 March 2005
    ...d situations are so good you don't fully appreciate them till a 2nd viewing. Alan Alda and Anjelica Houston also offer excellent support, if you love Woody Allen film...   Read customer review

Alan Alda - filmography


  • Wanderlust - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Alan Alda,  Justin Theroux
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd star in this comedy about a professional Manhattan couple who are forced to reconsider their aspirational lifestyle when unemployment looms. Linda and George have always lived life in the fast lane, prioritising their careers above anything else. At first they go to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,935 member
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  • Wanderlust on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Malin Akerman,  Paul Rudd
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in Wanderlust, a comedy from director David Wain (Role Models) and Producer Judd Appatow ( Knocked Up) about a couple who leave the pressures of the big city and join a freewheeling community. George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an over-extended, stressed out ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,508 members
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  • Behind the Burly Q (2010)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Joan Arline,  Beverly Arlynne
    Director: Leslie Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Burlesque and vaudeville acts were America's most popular form of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century - until cinema drove them from the mainstream. To add insult to injury, the art of burlesque became vilified and misunderstood, and was largely left out of our cultural history...read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 4 members
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  • Flash of Genius on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Greg Kinnear,  Lauren Graham,  Dermot Mulroney
    Director: Marc Abraham
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis and, by their mid-30s, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,957 members
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  • Howl on DVD (2009)
    Starring: James Franco,  Paul Rudd,  Mary-Louise Parker
    Director: Rob Epstein,  Jeffrey Friedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rob Epstein directs this drama based on the obscenity trial faced by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg following the publication of his poem 'Howl'. Set in 1950s San Francisco, the film stars James Franco as the young Ginsberg, who becomes a lynchpin of the Beat generation, alongside the likes of Jack ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,819 members
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  • Resurrecting the Champ on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Josh Hartnett,  Kathryn Morris
    Director: Rod Lurie
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan encounters a homeless man who calls himself “Champ” only to determine that he is the one-time boxing champion Battling Bob Satterfield. What begins as a story about resurrecting a once-great man becomes Erik’s title shot. In his journey to uncover the truth, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,581 member
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  • The Aviator on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Cate Blanchett,  Kate Beckinsale
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Fast-paced biopic documenting the life of one of the most colourful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hughes, the son of a Texan inventor who dies and leaves him with a small fortune. Hughes moves to Los Angeles to become a Hollywood film producer and produces ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 79,025 members
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  • What Women Want - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Helen Hunt,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: Nancy Meyers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director, writer, and producer Nancy Meyers's (THE PARENT TRAP) sophomore directorial effort is a lively screwball fantasy featuring Mel Gibson in his first romantic comedy. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a high-flying chauvinistic Chicago advertising executive who, like his musical idol, Frank ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,577 member
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  • What Women Want on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Helen Hunt,  Sarah Paulson,  Eric Balfour
    Director: Nancy Meyers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hot shot advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) thinks he's God's gift to women and can get anyone he wants. After an accident he discovers that he can hear what women are really thinking about and is upset that his showing off techniques are not popular with his female colleagues. To ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 19,467 members
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  • Murder at 1600 (1997)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  Ronny Cox,  Daniel Benzali
    Director: Dwight Little
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Homicide detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is called in to investigate when the body of a murdered 25-year-old woman is found in one of the bathrooms at the White House. At first it is thought that a janitor is responsible, but Regis suspects a cover-up. Partnered with the reluctant Secret ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,597 members
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  • Mad City on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Blythe D,  Dustin Hoffman,  Mia Kirshner
    Director: Costa Gavras
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sacked museum security guard Sam Bailey (John Travolta) returns to his old place of employment to beg for his job back. Unfortunately, his method of negotiation involves pulling a gun on his boss and the situation suddenly escalates into a siege. TV reporter Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) happens to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 911 members
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  • Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Goldie Hawn,  Alan Alda
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved standard songs such as Just You, Just Me and My Baby Just Cares for Me, this musical comedy by Woody Allen concerns a polite and comfortably well-off group of people and their romantic difficulties. DJ (Natasha Lyonne), who narrates the picture, is the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,235 members
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  • Flirting With Disaster on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Mary Tyler Moore,  Ben Stiller,  Alan Alda
    Director: David O. Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    New parent Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) decides that he cannot name his new son until he discovers the identity of his own parents. To the horror of his adoptive parents (Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal), Mel sets out on a quest of discovery with wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and sexy psychology ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,009 members
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  • Canadian Bacon (1995)
    Starring: Rhea Perlman,  Alan Alda,  John Candy
    Director: Michael Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Candy, in his penultimate starring role, plays Bud Boomer, Sheriff of the Niagra Falls. The President of the United States (Alan Alda) is way behind in the opinion polls and so launches 'Operation Canadian Bacon' to create a diversion from the country's domestic problems: an unlikely attempt ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,594 member
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  • And The Band Played On on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  TchĂ©ky Karyo,  Glenne Headly
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Made for TV medical drama, set in the mid-Eighties at a time when the AIDS epidemic was just beginning to make itself felt. Matthew Modine heads a star-studded cast, as a researcher investigating the virus against a backdrop of public apathy.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 524 members
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  • Manhattan Murder Mystery on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,681 members
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  • Crimes And Misdemeanors on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Alan Alda,  Woody Allen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,564 members
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  • Betsy's Wedding on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Madeline Kahn,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her fiancĂ© just want a quiet, intimate wedding. But Betsy's father (Alan Alda) feels threatened by his future son-in-law's rich parents, so he plans an extravagant affair, only to find that he cannot afford to pay for it all. So he then enlists the help of his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 319 members
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  • Sweet Liberty on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Linda Thorson,  Lois Chiles,  Alan Alda
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Alan Alda directs and stars in this satirical comedy about the film industry's take on history. Professor Michael Burgess's (Alda) historical novel about the American Revolution is about to be made into a film, but when the film crew descends on his hometown, the professor realises quite a few ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 163 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 11 (3 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All 15 episodes from the eleventh and final season of the hugely popular medical comedy. Episodes comprise: 'Hey, Look Me Over', 'Trick or Treatment', 'Foreign Affairs', 'The Joker is Wild', 'Who Knew?', 'Bombshells', 'Settling Debts', 'The Moon is Not Blue', 'Run For the Money', 'U.N., The Night ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 698 members
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  • The Four Seasons (1981)
    Starring: Len Cariou,  Alan Alda,  Robert Hitt
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mid-life crisis comedy/drama from Director Alan Alda. Three middle-aged couples take holidays together in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, leading to a variety of personal and family crises.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 211 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 10 (3 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The final season of the award-winning comedy series. Episodes Comprise: 'That's Showbiz', 'Identity Crisis', 'Rumour At The Top', 'Give 'Em Hell Hawkeye', 'Wheelers And Dealers', 'Communication Breakdown', 'Snap Judgment (Part 1 of 2)', 'Snappier Judgment (Part 2 of 2)', ''Twas The Day After ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 760 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 8 (3 discs) on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Gary Burghoff,  Alan Alda
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All the episodes from the eighth season of the award-winning comedy series. Episodes comprise: 'Too Many Cooks', 'Are You Now, Margaret?', 'Guerilla My Dreams', 'Good-Bye Radar (Part 1)', 'Good-Bye Radar (Part 2)', 'Period Of Adjustment', 'Nurse Doctor', 'Private Finance', 'Mr. And Mrs. Who?', 'The ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 919 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 9 (3 discs) on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Gary Burghoff,  Alan Alda
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All the episodes from the ninth season of the award-winning comedy series. Episodes comprise: 'The Best Of Enemies', 'Letters', 'Cementing Relationships', 'Father's Day', 'Death Takes A Holiday', 'A War For All Seasons', 'Your Retention Please', 'Tell It To The Marines', 'Taking The Fifth', '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 806 members
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  • The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Meryl Streep,  Barbara Harris
    Director: Jerry Schatzberg
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Rising politician Joe ... Full DescriptionTynan (Alda) is having serious difficulty juggling his career and his family. In particular, he is experiencing a growing number of problems with his loving, neglected wife. An affair with beautiful lobbyist Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep) further ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 14 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 7 (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Gary Burghoff,  Alan Alda
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire seventh season of the satirical US television series (and spin-off from Robert Altman's 1970 film), which depicts the crazy antics and the sexual adventures of Captain 'Hawkeye' Pierce (Alan Alda), Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Major 'Hotlips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 844 members
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  • California Suite (1978)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Jane Fonda,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Four couples are guests in the same California hotel on the eve of the Academy Awards, in this episodic comedy based on Neil Simon's play. Starring Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith (who won an Oscar for this role), Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 816 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 6 (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Gary Burghoff,  Alan Alda
    Director: Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire sixth season of the satirical US television series (and spin-off from Robert Altman's 1970 film), which depicts the crazy antics and the sexual adventures of Captain 'Hawkeye' Pierce (Alan Alda), Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Major 'Hotlips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 922 members
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  • Same Time, Next Year on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Ivan Bonar,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Robert Mulligan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Romantic comedy drama based on the successful stage play. George (Alan Alda) and Doris (Ellen Burstyn) meet by chance over dinner at a California inn in the 1950s. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning wondering how they got there. This romantic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 428 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 5 (3 discs) on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire fifth season of the satirical US television series set against the backdrop of a US army hospital in the Korean War. This is the season in which Major 'Hot Lips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit) gets engaged and - in the final episode - married, leaving the lovelorn Frank Burns (Larry Linville) ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,108 member
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 4 (3 discs) on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire fourth season of the satirical US television series set against the backdrop of a US army hospital in the Korean War. New characters, surgeon BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) and Colonel Sherman T. Potter (Harry Morgan), join the regular characters, Hawkeye, Hotlips, radar and Major Frank ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,116 member
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 3 (3 discs) on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Wayne Rogers,  Alan Alda
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire third season of the satirical US television series (and spin-off from Robert Altman's 1970 film), which depicts the crazy antics and the sexual adventures of Captain 'Hawkeye' Pierce (Alan Alda), Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Major 'Hotlips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,217 member
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 2 (3 discs) on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire second season of the satirical US television series (and spin-off from Robert Altman's 1970 film), which depicts the crazy antics and the sexual adventures of Captain 'Hawkeye' Pierce (Alan Alda), Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Major 'Hotlips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,561 member
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  • The Glass House on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Vic Morrow
    Director: Tom Gries
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Things begin to spiral out of control for Mr and Mrs Glass (Stellan SkarsgĂ„rd, Diane Lane) when they are appointed legal guardians of 16-year-old Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her 11-year-old brother (Trevor Morgan) after their parents are killed in a car accident. Having been trusted former ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 65 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jamie Farr,  Gary Burghoff,  Alan Alda
    Director: Jackie Cooper,  Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire first season of the satirical US television series (and spin-off from Robert Altman's 1970 film), which depicts the crazy antics and the sexual adventures of Captain 'Hawkeye' Pierce (Alan Alda), Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), Major 'Hotlips' Houlihan (Loretta Swit), ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,029 members
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Alan Alda facts

5 most recent films

Wanderlust - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Wanderlust - 3.0 stars
Howl - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Behind the Burly Q - 2.0 stars
Flash of Genius - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

M.A.S.H. - Season 11 - 4.0 stars
M.A.S.H. - Season 2 - 4.0 stars
M.A.S.H. - Season 7 - 4.0 stars
M.A.S.H. - Season 5 - 4.0 stars
M.A.S.H. - Season 4 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Behind the Burly Q - 2.0 stars
The Seduction of Joe Tynan - 3.0 stars
Nothing But the Truth - Blu-ray - 5.0 stars
The Glass House - 2.5 stars
Diminished Capacity - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mike Farrell - 46 times - show films
Jamie Farr - 37 times - show films
David Ogden Stiers - 33 times - show films
Harry Morgan - 32 times - show films
Loretta Swit - 31 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hy Averback - 45 times - show films
Jackie Cooper - 40 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 5 times - show films
Woody Allen - 4 times - show films
none - 4 times - show films