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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: Jennifer Aniston,  Malin Akerman,  Paul Rudd
    Director: David Wain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director David Wain (Role Models) teams up with producer Judd Apatow (Get Him to the Greek) for this comedy about an overtaxed Manhattan couple who move to a liberated community that rejects the rules of contemporary society. Urban power couple George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8 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 36% from 3 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
    James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's biopic that blends traditional narrative storytelling with documentary-style footage and vivid animation to paint a compelling portrait of the famed Beat poet. For many historians, the counterculture was conceived the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,361 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 2,806 members
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  • Diminished Capacity on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Alan Alda,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Terry Kinney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    How much is a good memory worth? That's the question that faces newspaper editor Cooper after a debilitating concussion takes him from the political pages to comic strip detail. Looking for answers, he travels home to Missouri where his now senile Uncle Rollie is on the verge of losing his home. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 491 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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    Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Harnett turn in knockout performances in this powerful tale about fathers and sons and the power of redemption. Struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) encounters a homeless man who calls himself “Champ” (Samuel L. Jackson) only to determine that he is the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,056 member
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  • The Aviator on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Cate Blanchett,  Kate Beckinsale
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 76,909 members
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  • What Women Want on DVD (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 63% from 19,084 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 1,513 member
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  • Murder at 1600 (1997)
    Starring: Wesley Snipes,  Alan Alda,  Daniel Benzali
    Director: Dwight Little
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    A mysterious murder report summons a hardened Washington D.C. homicide detective to the shadowy halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-and draws him into a web of conspiracy, cover-ups, and corruption.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,252 members
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  • Mad City on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Blythe Danner,  Robert Prosky,  Ted Levine
    Director: Costa Gavras
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In one of his strongest performances, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a museum security guard who holds visitors hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he falls foul of museum cutbacks. Dustin Hoffman co-stars as Max Brackett, a local news reporter who seizes the hostage situation as a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 883 members
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  • Flirting With Disaster on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Patricia Arquette,  Tea Leoni
    Director: David O. Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director David O. Russell follows up his dark independent comedy SPANKING THE MONKEY with this hilarious romp about a man who goes on a quest to find his biological parents. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller), a new father, is convinced that he won't be able to give his son a name until he reunites ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,892 member
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  • Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Julia Roberts,  Goldie Hawn
    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 4,139 members
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  • Canadian Bacon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: John Candy,  Alan Alda,  Rhea Perlman
    Director: Michael Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this wacky satire on the cold war mentality, the president of the United States and an arms manufacturer find it in their best economic interests to plant rumours of a potential nuclear attack--by Canada. Then, following a border incident at a hockey tournament, a patriotic sheriff and his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,534 member
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  • Manhattan Murder Mystery on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Alan Alda
    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 5,408 members
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  • Betsy's Wedding on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Joe Pesci,  Molly Ringwald
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A father anxious to throw a lavish wedding for his not so keen daughter falls foul of his depleted finances and has to enlist the help of his brother in law, who has Mob connections. A series of crazy events follow...
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 308 members
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  • Crimes And Misdemeanors on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Claire Bloom,  Anjelica Huston
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who is having an affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to reveal their relationship unless Judah commits to her and leaves his wife. He admits his sin to Ben, a friend, a patient, and a learned rabbi who is losing his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,252 members
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  • Sweet Liberty on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Bob Hoskins,  Saul Rubinek
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A history professor's life and peaceful college town are turned upside down when a film crew turns up to make a movie out of his best-selling novel about the American Revolution.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 150 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 11 (3 discs) on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Loretta Swit,  Mike Farrell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The television comedy M.A.S.H. debuted in 1972. In the process of becoming one of the most successful and beloved programmes in TV history, it completely reinvented situation comedies. Based on Robert Altman's hit film, the sitcom ran for an astonishing 11 years. The line between comedy and drama ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 688 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 10 (3 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Loretta Swit,  Mike Farrell
    Director: Hy Averback,  Jackie Cooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The television comedy M.A.S.H. debuted in 1972. In the process of becoming one of the most successful and beloved programmes in TV history, it completely reinvented situation comedies. Based on Robert Altman's hit film, the sitcom ran for an astonishing 11 years. The line between comedy and drama ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 781 members
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  • The Four Seasons on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Carol Burnett,  Len Cariou
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Four Seasons revolves around three couples who take vacations together during each of the seasons. After this pattern has been established, Nick (Cariou) leaves his wife Anne (Dennis) for a much younger woman, Ginny (Armstrong). Nick then brings Ginny on the couples' shared vacations, causing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 198 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 57% from 12 members
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  • Same Time, Next Year on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ellen Burstyn,  Alan Alda,  Ivan Bonar
    Director: Robert Mulligan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn glow on screen as two people who find long, enduring love with each other despite being married to other people. A fateful meeting at a California inn leads the seemingly mismatched pair into 26-year-long affair in which they meet for only one weekend every year. Altered ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 389 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 6 (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell,  Harry Morgan
    Director: Hy Averback
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Features episodes from the sixth season of the television comedy series which follows the fortunes of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital on a tour of duty in Korea in the 1950s.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 899 members
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 5 (3 discs) on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Hy Averback,  Jackie Cooper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The television comedy series which follows the fortunes of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital on a tour of duty in Korea in the 1950s. Episodes include: 'Dear Sigmund', 'Hawk's Nightmare' and 'Margaret's Marriage'.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,090 member
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 4 (3 discs) on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Loretta Swit,  Larry Linville
    Director: Hy Averback,  Jackie Cooper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Featuring twenty four episodes from Season Four of the television series. Episodes include: 'Welcome To Korea', 'Change Of Command', 'It Happened One Night', 'The Late Captain Pierce', 'Hey, Doc', 'The Bus', 'Dear Mildred', 'The Kids', 'Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler', 'Dear Peggy', Of Moose And Men', ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,091 member
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  • M.A.S.H. - Season 2 (3 discs) on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Mike Farrell,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Hy Averback,  Jackie Cooper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Features every episode from Series 2 'Divided We Stand', '5 O'Clock Charlie', 'Radar's Report', 'For The Good Of The Outfit', 'Dr Pierce And Mr Hyde', 'Kim', 'L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)', 'The Trial Of Henry Blake', 'Dear Dad...Three', 'The Sniper', 'Carry On Hawkeye', 'The Incubator', '..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,606 member
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Alan Alda facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

M.A.S.H. - Season 2 - 4.0 stars
M.A.S.H. - Season 11 - 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
Wanderlust - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Nothing But the Truth - 4.0 stars
The Glass House - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mike Farrell - 41 times - show films
Jamie Farr - 33 times - show films
David Ogden Stiers - 29 times - show films
Harry Morgan - 29 times - show films
Loretta Swit - 28 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Hy Averback - 40 times - show films
Jackie Cooper - 36 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 5 times - show films
Woody Allen - 4 times - show films
none - 4 times - show films