loading...
Hollywood Ending
2002
Allen plays an aging film director that is suddenly afflicted with temporary blindness. However, mid way through production on his latest film, he must soldier on without letting his producers know. Read more
| Starring | Woody Allen, Tea Leone, George Hamilton, Treat Williams |
|---|---|
| Director | Woody Allen |
| Genres | Comedy |
loading...
Hollywood Ending
Allen plays an aging film director that is suddenly afflicted with temporary blindness. However, mid way through production on his latest film, he must soldier on without letting his producers know.
| Starring | Woody Allen, Tea Leone, George Hamilton, Treat Williams, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell |
|---|---|
| Director | Woody Allen |
| Studio | Dreamworks |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 2002 |
-
Critics' reviews (2)
View all -
A stupendous pratfall, made all the more hilarious by its sheer unexpectedness, is the highlight of Woody Allen's golden bathed, but overly gentle dig at the ethics and aesthetics of mainstream moviemaking. As ever, the ensemble is exemplary, with Téa Leoni particularly impressive as the estranged wife of Allen's washed-up director, who takes a chance on him for her Hollywood producing debut. But the central conceit that Allen is stricken psychosomatically blind just before shooting begins, yet still manages to muddle through, strains to breaking point and is only partially rescued by a sharp payoff about French interpretations of cinematic genius.
-
Val Waxman (Allen) is so down on his movie-directing luck that when Hollywood offers the chance for a comeback, he's... read more on Time Out
-
Submit the first review for Hollywood Ending and you could win a DVD player! Write the first review of this title and you'll be entered into a regular draw (winners announced in the newsletter).
-
News and features
View all
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
-
More like this
View all
92.4% from 4 members
