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Woody Allen
Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1st December 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an actor / writer / director best known for slice-of-life drama and comedy. His defining film is probably Annie Hall (1977).
A remarkable career starting in stand-up comedy and television chat show gag writing led to an astonishing number of films with an astonishing number of them very good to great and almost every single one containing great moments and lines. Woody Allen is one of the 20th-century's most iconic and brilliant filmmakers and is arguably the greatest screenwriter ever.
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Big name actors 'snub Allen' -
6 June 2008
Legendary actors Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman turned down the chance to star in a Woody Allen movie on grounds of the pay being offered.-The Oscar-winning director attempted to lure the actors to take roles in films such as Deconstructing Harry an
Woody Allen - what members say
Woody Allen - filmography
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Cassandra's Dream
on DVD (2008)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
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49%
from 1,077 members
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Scoop
(2006)
Starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Charles Dance
Director: Wood Allen
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An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
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62%
from 68 members
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Match Point
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer
Director: Woody Allen
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For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very ..read more »
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57%
from 5,765 members
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Melinda And Melinda
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in unexpectedly on a dinner party in an apartment in New York City, Sy (Wallace Shawn) expands it into a romantic ..read more »
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57%
from 1,491 members
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Anything Else
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing
Director: Woody Allen
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Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big, while Ricci is Amanda, a self-absorbed free spirit whom men go wild for. They fall for each other ..read more »
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56%
from 641 members
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The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's funny, frantic THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION is part screwball romantic comedy, part 1940s noir detective story, and part ingenious heist film. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, a set-in-his-ways old-time insurance investigator who refuses to get along with the bright new efficiency expert,..read more »
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62%
from 531 members
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Hollywood Ending
(2002)
Starring: Woody Allen, Tea Leone, George Hamilton
Director: Woody Allen
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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.
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58%
from 88 members
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Company Man
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Douglas McGrath, John Turturro
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
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COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his ..read more »
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40%
from 204 members
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Small Time Crooks
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Tracey Ullman, Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break. It's as if Virgil Starkwell (Allen's hysterically incompetent criminal mastermind from TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) has finally gotten out of prison and is still ..read more »
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64%
from 645 members
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Picking Up The Pieces
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Woody Allen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lily Tomlin
Director: Alfonso Arau
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In a mad rage, a kosher butcher named Tex (Woody Allen) murders his adulterous wife (Sharon Stone), chops her body into pieces, and buries them in a Mexican desert. In time, the dead woman's hand surfaces and an old blind woman trips over it. The fall remarkably restores her sight, leading the ..read more »
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40%
from 262 members
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Sweet And Lowdown
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ..read more »
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70%
from 667 members
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Celebrity
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Hank Azaria
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
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57%
from 445 members
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Antz
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Allen
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
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Central Park ant drone Z longs to be an individual of accomplishment, but Z's colony is a society that puts the value of the colony over personal achievement. Young Z sets his sites on the colony's Queen daughter Bala- who is uninterested until Z successfully mounts a revolution within the colony ..read more »
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67%
from 2,214 members
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Deconstructing Harry
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Robin Williams
Director: Woody Allen
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Upon returning in glory to the college from which he was expelled, sexually voracious and dyspeptic writer Harry Block can find no companions for his trip--except, that is, for a hooker he's hired. The trouble with Harry, as it were, is that he's alienated everyone in his life, from a string of ..read more »
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68%
from 894 members
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Everyone Says I Love You
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn
Director: Woody Allen
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A melange of sentimental musical vignettes about the various members of a madcap Manhattan family, who attempt by turns to find romance. Allen returns to his improvisational comic vein, reportedly springing the musical numbers on his nonmusical stars--only Barrymore was dubbed--shortly before ..read more »
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64%
from 1,025 members
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Mighty Aphrodite
on DVD (1995)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom
Director: Woody Allen
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
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66%
from 1,313 members
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Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: John Erman
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An updated screen adaption of Neil Simon's hilarious 1972 play telling the tale of two legendary comedians Lewis and Clark (played by Woody Allen and Peter Falk) and their return to the stage after a lengthy hiatus from show business and each other. Also stars Sarah Jessica Parker.
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49%
from 227 members
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Bullets Over Broadway
on DVD (1994)
Starring: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Woody Allen
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David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ..read more »
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69%
from 954 members
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen and Diane Keaton join forces again in this charming riff on such murder mystery classics as REAR WINDOW, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Allen and Keaton play Larry and Carol Lipton, a New York couple reevaluating their life together after their only son goes off to ..read more »
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72%
from 1,316 members
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Shadows And Fog
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack
Director: Woody Allen
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A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of ..read more »
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58%
from 425 members
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Husbands And Wives
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Blythe Danner
Director: Woody Allen
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Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a ..read more »
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71%
from 1,002 members
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Scenes From A Mall
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Bette Midler, Woody Allen
Director: Paul Mazursky
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Bette Midler and Woody Allen star in director Paul Mazursky's comedy as a professional Los Angeles couple--Deborah (Midler) is the author of a best-selling self-help book about marriage and has been wed to successful lawyer Nick (Allen) for 16 years. They live a high-pressure professional life, ..read more »
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55%
from 131 members
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Alice
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Alec Baldwin
Director: Woody Allen
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Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is a rich Manhattan wife who spends her days shopping, getting pedicures, going to the salon, working out with her personal trainer, and seeing her chiropractor. But when she can't get rid of her back pain, she goes to an Asian herbalist (the wonderful Keye Luke, in his ..read more »
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63%
from 384 members
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Crimes And Misdemeanors
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Anjelica Huston
Director: Woody Allen
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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 ..read more »
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74%
from 1,284 members
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Another Woman
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, John Houseman
Director: Woody Allen
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A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »
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65%
from 198 members
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September
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Mia Farrow, Denholm Elliott, Sam Waterston
Director: Woody Allen
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In a serene Vermont country house, six people share their dreams, their fears, and their desires, as secrets are revealed and trusts broken. The cast is led by Mia Farrow, who plays Lane, a woman who has never fully dealt with a long-ago shooting. Elaine Stritch plays Diane, Lane's mother, who ..read more »
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56%
from 201 members
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8 June 2004
...must see movie for anyone who likes one liners and politically incorrect humor. Woody Allen does an excellent job in this film without coming across in a hateful manner. W...
Lets go to the dump and shoot some rats! 2 October 2004
