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Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe.
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- Academy Award nominations (* denotes win)
Annie Hall, American romantic comedy film, released in 1977, that was cowritten and directed by Woody Allen and starred Allen and Diane Keaton. The movie, with its mix of comic sequences and observations about the impermanence of romance, became a critical and popular favourite. It garnered both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best picture, and Allen won BAFTA Awards and Oscars for his direction and writing.
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The movie begins with Alvy Singer (played by Allen) telling the audience that he is trying to figure out why his relationship with Annie Hall ended. The story proceeds in a series of nonlinear flashbacks, beginning with several scenes from Alvy’s childhood. The scenes reveal that Alvy grew up in a house under the roller coaster at Coney Island and that he was a nervous and pessimistic child who grew up to be a comedian. The next scenes take place at a more recent time. Alvy’s friend Rob (Tony Roberts) suggests that they move to California, but Alvy is not interested. Then Alvy and Annie (Keaton) go to a movie. Later that night, Annie mentions that Alvy has been married before, introducing a flashback to Alvy’s first marriage, to Allison (Carol Kane). Another scene shows Alvy and Annie enjoying each other’s company in a seaside house as they struggle to make a dinner of boiled lobsters. During a walk on the beach, they reflect on Annie’s previous boyfriends and then introduce Alvy’s failed second marriage, to Robin (Janet Margolin). The film then shows Annie and Alvy meeting for the first time, at a tennis game with Rob, and reveals the sweet and awkward beginning of their romance.
The next scenes show Alvy and Annie arguing about the prospect of living together, about their relationship, and about sex. Alvy has Easter dinner with Annie’s family in Wisconsin; his family observes a Jewish holiday in a split screen that highlights the cultural distance between the families. Later, Annie and Alvy break up. Alvy goes on a date with Pam (Shelley Duvall), but when they are in bed together, Annie calls Alvy to tell him that there is an emergency. Alvy goes to Annie to deal with the crisis (two spiders in her bathroom), and they reconcile.
•Studio: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
•Director: Woody Allen
•Writers: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
•Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
•Woody Allen (Alvy Singer)
•Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
•Tony Roberts (Rob)
•Carol Kane (Allison)
•Janet Margolin (Robin)
•Shelley Duvall (Pam)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Woody Allen)
•Lead actress* (Diane Keaton)
•Direction*
- Patricia Bauer
- ALLEN’S ORIGINAL IDEA FOR THE MOVIE WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. Although Annie Hall is now heralded as one of the most influential and inventive romantic comedies of all time, director and co-writer Woody Allen’s original mission was not to make a relationship picture.
- EARLY DRAFTS CONTAINED A SLEW OF FANTASY ELEMENTS. Included among the original script’s fantasy scenes and dream sequences were Alvy and Annie’s time-hopping visits to the Garden of Eden, the French Resistance, and Nazi Germany, parodies of the films Angel on My Shoulder and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a guided tour of Hell (featuring Richard Nixon), and a basketball game between the New York Knicks and philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard.
- ONE DISCARDED SUBPLOT FROM ANNIE HALL BECAME ANOTHER MOVIE. The Annie Hall scene following Alvy and Annie’s last-minute decision to skip out on the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face was initially meant to kick off a sequence in which the pair witnesses and investigates a murder.
- THE STUDIO HIRED AN AD AGENCY TO MAKE ALLEN’S TITLE MORE MARKETABLE. United Artists. United Artists, the distributor of Allen’s four previous films (Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Sleeper, and Love and Death) recognized the inherent difficulty in marketing a film called Anhedonia.
Apr 19, 2017 · Forty years after Annie Hall arrived in theaters (on April 20, 1977), we take a look at 40 things you may not know about the movie. 1. The film's original title was Anhedonia, meaning the ...
- The shots are long. The average shot length of Annie Hall was calculated at 14.5 seconds. Other films made in 1977 have an average shot length of four to seven seconds.
- The story was not meant to be about relationships. The script was originally a drama centred around a murder mystery, and the comedy and romance were subplots.
- The classic cocaine scene was an accident. In a classic scene, Allen's character, Alvy Singer, contemplates trying cocaine — but then sneezes, sending a pricey pile of his friend's stash flying.
- The film is Woody Allen's most lucrative. The film cost $4 million, and earned $38,251,425. When adjusted for inflation, that makes it Allen's biggest box office hit.
Apr 20, 2022 · Released in April of 1977 — 45 years ago this week — Annie Hall was Woody Allen’s magnum opus. Allen’s eighth film as director, out of nearly fifty in total, Annie Hall is the story of a failed relationship, from the regretful perspective of the male in the relationship.
May 12, 2002 · Lore about “Annie Hall” on imdb.com includes the revealing detail that Diane Keaton, who lived with Allen at the time, was born as Diane Hall, and her nickname was Annie.
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