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Hannah And Her Sisters
1986
Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband Elliot (Michael Caine in an .. Read more
| Starring | Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Hannah And Her Sisters
Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband Elliot (Michael Caine in an Oscar-winning performance). Elliot has fallen in love with Hannah's sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), who herself is feeling suffocated by her cynical, mean-spirited loner of a lover, played with great intensity by Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow. Meanwhile, third sister Holly (Oscar winnner Dianne Wiest) is struggling to find her own voice, working as a caterer while she tries to get her own acting career going. And in the middle of everything is Mickey (Woody Allen at his most neurotic), a television writer who is divorced from Hannah, has dated Holly, and, when he suspects he might have a brain tumor, decides to reevaluate his life and his faith in God.
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS is Allen's most fully realized, optimistic adult comedy. He won a well-deserved Oscar for his marvelous screenplay, filled with his trademark sharp, witty dialogue, his undying passion for New York (its culture, architecture, music, romance), and some of his most well developed characters. The cast is extraordinary, the music illuminating, the settings magnificent. Taking place over the course of a few Thanksgivings, Allen's insightful, wonderful film is a thoroughly enjoyable mature look at the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of family life.
| Starring | Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Daniel Stern |
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| Director | Woody Allen |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 42 mins |
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| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 19 Aug 2002 Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
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True creativity means that an artist can mine the same seam time after time and still come up with something fresh. Targeting once again the arty, neurotic residents of New York with his familiar, exhilarating combination of melancholy sentiment and witty cynicism, Woody Allen relishes their foibles and celebrates their triumphs, backing up his tale with some touching period tunes. Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest (both Oscar-winners), not to mention Woody himself, playing a hypochondriac, can do no wrong. This comedy drama sees Allen in complete control of his enormous talent.
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Even though it has nowhere in particular to go, and certain scenes are over the top, this is a brilliantly assembled and thoroughly enjoyable mélange of fine acting and New Yorkish one-liners, with particularly sharp editing and a nostalgic music score.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Not quite as great as I remembered, but nearly
I loved this film when it came out and on watching it again I found there are still lengthy passages which are quite brilliant. There is a wonderful joke about hypochondriac Woody going to a series of doctors each of which instead of reassuring him become more and more alarmist. I don't think Michael Caine's performance has quite stood the test of time, he was a very unexpected piece of casting at the time (English action man), so the main astonishment at the time was that he was there at all, not how he acted. The main Woody Allen joke about how such an ugly man can attract such beautiful women is answered towards the end of the film when we see him deploy the full force of his charm to 'pick up' his final mate. See it if you've never seen it and if you saw it in 1986 it's well worth another visit. Not quite as good as Manhattan or Annie Hall, though, in my opinion.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
I'm a Woody Alan fan so I'm obviously going to be a bit bias here. This is probably Woody's 2nd best film, next to Annie Hall. The characters are great, the acting is perfect, Woody is very funny as usual, and the cast is great. Men and Women can definitely both get something out of this great film. If you like any of Woody's other work you will love this one too.
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Whatever Happened to Woody Allen?
- 21 May 2008
He's made (at least!) a film a year since 1970, a record that's all the more remarkable when you realise that he's written and directed all of them, and starred in most. They include some of the best-loved and most quoted comedies in cinema history: Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters take some beating, and that's to ignore "the early, funny ones" (Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas); the lovely miniatures from what I consider his finest period (the early 80s gave us Broadway Danny... Read more
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