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Manhattan
on DVD (1979)
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| Starring: |
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Anne Byrne, Michael O'Donoghue, Karen Ludwig |
| Director: |
Woody Allen |
| Studio: |
MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
92 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
I <3 NY, Films That Don't Suck, My Current Top 20, The Revolution Will Be Televised - Or Watched on DVD, Woody Allen Classic, sminkejink's shelf, Films you really ought to see.........., Just Good Films, Alexa Chung's Top Ten, Olympia Hall |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English, German |
| Released: |
10/07/2000
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Brief synopsis of Manhattan
MANHATTAN is Woody Allen's glorious love letter to the city that he was born to make films about. Woody plays Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced TV writer having a relationship with 17-year old Tracy, a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. Isaac's best friend, Yale (Michael Murphy), is having an affair with Mary (Diane Keaton), a woman whose every word about the arts infuriates Isaac. Meanwhile, Isaac's ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) is writing a book that will expose all of his idiosyncrasies and neuroses. But when Yale breaks it off with Mary, Isaac and Mary start an affair that alters the relationships of all the major characters. Gordon Willis's stunning black-and-white photography and the soaring music of George Gershwin help make Woody Allen's brilliant vision of the city he loves one of the best films of the last quarter of the 20th century. Allen delicately balances the line between comedy and satire, drama and pathos. MANHATTAN is a gorgeous, vibrant comedy that explores the changing state of relationships in the New York of the late 1970s, capturing that moment in time with charm, intelligence, and lots of laughs.
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Radio Times
Setting the tone and style for many of his later movies, this early masterpiece from Woody Allen celebrates, as ever, his beloved New York. Allen stars as Isaac, a neurotic TV writer who's taken up with 17-year-old Mariel Hemingway, but who's being diverted by fast-talking Diane Keaton and — more dangerously — by the book about him written by his lesbian ex-wife Meryl Streep. Allen and his fellow New Yorkers swan in and out of the cultural byways of the Big Apple, indulging in psychiatric therapy that's never quite the cure-all they crave. The characters could have become over-articulate bores, but the wonder of Allen is that he manages to invest them with the saving grace of humanity. This is a wonderful film, with a George Gershwin score that adds just the right amount of poignancy.
Variety
"...Woody Allen never seems to tire of topping himself....An irresistible yarn of personal relationships that draws skillfully on the best comic moments of ANNIE HALL and the raw emotions he portrayed in his last picture INTERIORS..."
Halliwell's Film Guide
As close to a summation of Woody Allen's views and oeuvre as anybody needs; some smart jabs about the lives we lead are sometimes bogged down in earnestness and half-comic despair.
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