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A romantic comedy-drama directed by Woody Allen and set in New York City. It features music by George Gershwin, a love triangle, and a narrator who introduces the film as a book about a man who loves the city.
Manhattan: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway. The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
- (148K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Woody Allen
- 1979-04-25
Mar 18, 2001 · The opening shot is a stunner, looking West across Central Park at dawn while Gershwin’s ”Rhapsody in Blue” does what it always does–makes us feel transcendent. The locations are like an anthology of Manhattan shrines: The characters visit the Guggenheim, Elaine’s, Zabar’s deli.
Director Woody Allen's love letter to New York City stars Allen as frustrated television writer Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced malcontent facing middle age alone after his wife, Jill (Meryl Streep...
- (70)
- Woody Allen
- R
- Woody Allen
Manhattan. Comedy. 96 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1979. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1979. 5 min read. The overture is filled with brash confidence: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” played over powerful black-and-white visions of Manhattan and its skyline, and the mighty bridges leaping out to it from the provinces.
Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy.
Manhattan (1979) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
