Manhattan
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to b...
| Corporate Author: | United Artists Corporation., MGM Home Entertainment Inc. |
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| Other Authors: | Allen, Woody, 1935-, Joffe, Charles H., Brickman, Marshall., Keaton, Diane., Streep, Meryl., Hemingway, Mariel., Murphy, Michael, 1938-, Kronenfeld, Anne Byrne. |
| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Published: |
Culver City, CA :
MGM Home Entertainment Inc.,
c2000.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress. |
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| Item Description: |
Widescreen format. Videodisc release of the 1979 motion picture. Special features include: original theatrical trailer ; scene selections ; chapter selections. |
| Physical Description: |
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: |
DVD. |
| Audience: |
MPAA rating: R. |
| Production Credits: |
Music, George Gershwin ; director of photography, Gordon Willis ; film editor, Susan E. Morse. |
| ISBN: |
0792846109 |
| Author Notes: |
Allen wants to be funny, but isn't afraid to be serious either-even at the same time. His film Annie Hall, co-written with Marshall Brickman and winner of four Academy Awards, was a subtle, dramatic development of the contemporary fears and insecurities of American life. In her review of Love and Death, Judith Christ wrote that Allen was more interested in the character rather than the cartoon, the situation rather than the set-up, and the underlying madness rather than the surface craziness. Later Allen films, such as Crimes and Misdemeanors or Husbands and Wives, take on a far more somber and philosophic tone, which has delighted some critics and appalled others. In Allen's essays and fiction reprinted from the New Yorker, Getting Even New Yorker, (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980), the situations and characters don't just speak to us, they are us. (Bowker Author Biography) |