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- 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 favorite.
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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.
Annie Hall: Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane. Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
- (280K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Woody Allen
- 1977-04-20
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- Production notes and credits
- Cast
- 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.
(Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
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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
May 12, 2002 · Annie Hall, played by Diane Keaton, sets the form for many of Allen’s onscreen girlfriends: Pretty, smart, scatterbrained, younger, with affection gradually fading into exasperation. Women put up with a lot in Allen’s movies, but at a certain point they draw the line.
- It broke the romcom rules (and the fourth wall) As with many film genres in the golden age of 1970s cinema, the romcom got a long overdue makeover. Annie Hall rejected its tried-and-tested feelgood fantasies for a spikier, more grounded take on romantic love.
- It initiated a more personal style of filmmaking. Woody Allen had long established his comic persona – a nebbish, neurotic, narcissistic, albeit very funny New Yorker – but here he meant more than ever to connect this to his own personal predilections.
- It inspired Woody Allen’s drive to write great female roles. Diane Keaton had co-starred in Allen’s two previous films, Sleeper and Love and Death, establishing herself as a deft comedian with a kooky sensibility and offbeat comic timing.
- It allowed Allen to experiment and find his cinematic voice. The overriding lesson of Annie Hall? Less is more. Anhedonia’s first cut was two hours, 20 minutes long and included novel but distracting asides.
Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).
- (127)
- Romance, Comedy
- PG
Apr 19, 2017 · Annie Hall is Allen's fourth-highest grossing movie, behind Midnight in Paris, Hannah and Her Sisters and Manhattan. Adjusted for inflation, it is his highest earner, with an estimated...
