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Crimes and misdemeanors

Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.

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Other Authors:	Rollins, Jack, 1915-2015 (Producer), Joffe, Charles H. (Producer), Greenhut, Robert (Producer), Allen, Woody, 1935- (Actor, Screenwriter, Director), Kurland, Jeffrey (Costume designer), Morse, Susan E. (Film editor), Loquasto, Santo (Designer), Nykvist, Sven (Cinematographer), Aaron, Caroline (Actor), Alda, Alan, 1936- (Actor), Bloom, Claire, 1931- (Actor), Farrow, Mia, 1945- (Actor), Gleason, Joanna (Actor), Huston, Anjelica (Actor), Landau, Martin, 1928-2017 (Actor), Nichols, Jenny (Actor), Orbach, Jerry (Actor), Waterston, Sam (Actor)
Format:	Videos DVD
Language:	English French Spanish
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2005]
Series:	Contemporary classics (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)
Subjects:	Adultery > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Murder > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Ophthalmologists > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Motion picture producers and directors > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Comedy films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:	Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.
Item Description:	Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: Original theatrical trailer.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (1 hr., 44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; NTSC region 1; Dolby digital; 16x9 widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.
Audience:	MPAA rating: PG-13.
Production Credits:	Costume designer, Jeffrey Kurland ; editor, Susan E. Morse ; production designer, Santo Loquasto ; director of photography, Sven Nykvist.
ISBN:	0792848942 9780792848943 7616862667 9787616862666
Author Notes:	Allen's favorite personality-the bemused neurotic, the perpetual worrywart, the born loser-dominates his plays, his movies, and his essays. A native New Yorker, Allen attended local schools and despised them, turning early to essay writing as a way to cope with his Since his apprenticeship, writing gags for comedians such as Sid Caesar and Garry Moore, the image he projects-of a "nebbish from Brooklyn"-has developed into a personal metaphor of life as a concentration camp from which no one escapes alive. 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)