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Mar 22, 2005 · Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda" begins with friends having dinner in a Manhattan restaurant. One of the friends is played by Wallace Shawn, who (Allen's audiences will know) has had a famous restaurant meal or two. Shawn is a playwright, debating another playwright (Larry Pine) about whether the world is essentially tragic or comic. They devise two versions of a story, which changes in ...
Mar 15, 2005 · Rated: 4/5 Apr 1, 2006 Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Melinda and Melinda simply sits there on screen, inert, flat, unmoving (in both senses of the word).
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- Woody Allen
- PG-13
- Radha Mitchell
Apr 8, 2005 · Melinda and Melinda: Directed by Woody Allen. With Wallace Shawn, Neil Pepe, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Larry Pine. Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Woody Allen
- 2005-04-08
Parents say ( 2 ): Kids say ( 1 ): Woody Allen's MELINDA AND MELINDA has a great premise. But while it is surer and more intriguing than the airid Anything Else and Hollywood Ending, it still fails to give us characters who connect in authentic or interesting ways to each other and therefore they never connect to us.
- Amanda Peet, Chloe Sevigny, Will Ferrell
- Woody Allen
- Fox Searchlight
To top it all off, the movie's premise is framed by a gaggle of annoying artsy-fartsy types having dinner in a restaurant and discussing the merits of comedies versus dramas. Blech. As with a lot of Woody Allen's films, the two story lines of Melinda and Melinda simply end with no real or satisfying resolutions.
Melinda and Melinda is a 2005 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.It premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one comic, one tragic.
Mar 18, 2005 · Feb 2, 2017. Released in late 2004 in Europe, but early 2005 in America, Melinda and Melinda stands as a testament to the change that was afoot in Woody Allen's career. After this film, he took off to Europe and began filming in various vacation destinations across the continent. One of the last few New York City shot Allen flicks (Whatever ...
