Director: Woody Allen
Screenplay: Woody Allen
Starring: Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Woody Allen, Max von Sydow, Carrie Fisher
Running Time: 103 minutes
Genre: Comedy drama
This film concerns the lives of three sisters over the course of two years. Hannah (Farrow), is kind, loving, strong and stable, her husband Elliot (Caine), while he loves Hannah, is infatuated with her sister Lee (Hershey), who is living with mercurial artist Frederick (Sydow). Meanwhile, the third sister, Holly (Wiest), a former cocaine addict, struggles to achieve her dream of becoming an actor while managing a catering company with her friend and rival, April (Fisher). Also Hannah's ex-husband Mickey (Allen), a hypochondriac television producer experiences an existential crisis when he becomes convinced he has a brain tumor.
This is possibly one of Woody Allen's finest films, managing the very tricky art of successfully balancing both comedy and drama. It manages to be tender and sentimental without being saccharine, profound without being pretentious, warm without being cloying and, where necessary, being biting without being cruel. Allen manages to get good performances out of his large cast, and seems to have genuine affection for all of his characters. If you are familiar with Woody Allen movies, than you'll know the kind of humor on display here, mostly wry, neurotic, intellectual wisecracks. Of course, these days Woody Allen is problematic to say the least, and also this is a film almost entirely about very wealthy white people, in Allen's New York, people of colour are barely glimpsed. Although this is a very affecting film about sisterhood, love, ambition and just trying to find a meaning to life.
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