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Crimes And Misdemeanors
on DVD (1990)
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| Starring: |
Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Anjelica Huston, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Mia Farrow, Joanna Gleason, Jenny Nichols, Sam Waterston, Caroline Aaron, Jerry Orbach |
| Director: |
Woody Allen |
| Studio: |
MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
100 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
TOP 10 MOVIES, Films that change your Life.., Films that stole my heart and polished my soul, 50 Cinematic Gems, Woody Allen Classic, My favourites |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Danish, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released: |
11/02/2002
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Brief synopsis of Crimes And Misdemeanors
Contains the Woody Allen films CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ALICE, SHADOWS AND FOG, ANYTHING ELSE, and MELINDA AND MELINDA. 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 eyesight but not his faith. Judah turns to his brother Jack, who is connected to the mob and can make Dolores disappear. Meanwhile, Cliff Stern is a documentary filmmaker who accepts an assignment to film his pompous, successful brother-in-law, Lester, a comedy star; both Cliff and Lester fall for Hallie Reed, a producer involved in the documentary. In ALICE, Alice Tate is a bored housewife who seems to have everything she could possibly want. She seeks out a new life while under the influence of a Chinese healer. SHADOWS AND FOG is set in the 1920s and follows the events of a single night when the lives of a small European community are drawn together by the threat of murder and the magic of the circus. In ANYTHING ELSE, Jerry lives in New York City and is an up-and-coming writer waiting for the big break. He meets and falls in love at first sight with Amanda and dumps his current girlfriend. He then realises that he needs help with his career so turns to David, an ageing artist, who also ends up helping him with his romantic life. In MELINDA AND MELINDA, while at a dinner with her friends, Sy demonstrates that the same story can be both sad and uplifting, depending on how certain aspects are dealt with. To illustrate her point, Sy tells the story of recently divorced Melinda from two very different perspectives.
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Radio Times
Woody Allen is the finest practitioner of screen comedy since the collapse of the studio system. He is also more than capable of tackling weightier topics in the manner of his idol, Ingmar Bergman. Here, in one of his most ambitious films, Allen combines his archetypal wisecracking style with his more serious moral preoccupations, and the result is a compelling piece of cinema that is as troubling as it is hilarious. The key themes are readily apparent — love and death, good and evil, faith and disbelief. Yet this is also a film about self-loathing, an idea that returned with a vengeance in Allen's Deconstructing Harry. The excellent Martin Landau plays an eminent eye surgeon who hates himself for allowing his perfect life to run out of control after his lover (Anjelica Huston) threatens to expose his private and professional indiscretions to his loyal wife (Claire Bloom). Allen, as a documentary film-maker, is also at war with himself, although he has a convenient scapegoat for his failures in his brother-in-law (a wonderfully weaselly Alan Alda), a TV sitcom director with a gleeful lack of taste and a talent for seducing women. Allen and Landau's characters only meet in the final scene, but their circumstances are ingeniously interwoven to comment on their behaviour. The notion that crimes go unpunished while misdemeanours have life-shattering repercussions is hardly original, but this is still a challenging and sophisticated picture that few other American directors could have carried off with such aplomb.
Rolling Stone
"...In this risky, riveting film, our most prolific and provocative moviemaker uses his wit to touch a nerve. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS is so funny it hurts..."
Time Out
In the first of two loosely interwoven stories, rich, philanthropic ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal (Landau), afraid...
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