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Manhattan
Universal acclaim
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by:
Woody Allen
Marshall Brickman
Directed by: Woody Allen
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 14, 1979
DVD: July 5, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for restricted, under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Michael O'Donoghue, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Karen Ludwig, and Meryl Streep
Manhattan is an extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and loves of a successful New York comedy writer. (MGM)
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What The Critics Said
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TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Deft comedy set in a neurotic town. People may argue about the relative merits of Annie Hall vis-a-vis Manhattan, which is a better and more fully realized film. By this time Allen had forsworn the glib one-liner and spent more time developing well-rounded characters.
Read Full Review >Empire David Parkinson
One of Woody's most aesthetically gorgeous films as well as his classic love-hate letter to the city of his soul.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
If Manhattan was only a romantic comedy, it would be a very good one, but the fact that the movie has so much more ambition than the "average" entry into the genre makes it an extraordinary example of the fusion of entertainment and art. This is Allen in peak form, deftly mastering and combining the diverse threads of romance, drama, and comedy - and all against a black-and-white backdrop that makes us wonder why color is such a coveted characteristic in modern motion pictures.
Read Full Review >Time Vincent Canby
What happens is not the substance of Manhattan as much as how it happens. The movie is full of moments that are uproariously funny and others that are sometimes shattering for the degree in which they evoke civilized desolation.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
this is a very good movie. Woody Allen is ... Woody, sublimely. Diane Keaton gives us a fresh and nicely edged New York intellectual. And Mariel Hemingway deserves some kind of special award for what's in some ways the most difficult role in the film.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
Never before has Allen been able to integrate comedy and pathos as deftly as he does in Manhattan. [28 Apr 1979, p. 17]
Wall Street Journal Julie Salamon
With his co-writer, Randy Sue Coburn, and composer Mark Isham, director Alan Rudolph has created a sense of time and place that authentically conveys what it might have been like when writers were celebrities and special effects came from words. [10 Jan 1995, p.A18]
Variety Staff (Not Credited)
Woody Allen uses New York City as a backdrop for the familiar story of the successful but neurotic urban over-achievers whose relationships always seem to end prematurely. The film is just as much about how wonderful a place the city is to live in as it is about the elusive search for love.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
The script is funny and observant, full of shocks of recognition, but for all his progress as a writer, Allen's direction remains disconcertingly amateurish. Still, it remains perhaps the only film in which Allen has been able to successfully imagine a personality other than his own.
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