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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
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139K
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- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 15 wins & 24 nominations total
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- Emilyas Emily
- (as Anne Byrne)
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Storyline
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. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events after they happen, no matter what those events are. —Huggo
- man wears eyeglasses
- 17 year old
- teenage girl
- love triangle
- central park manhattan new york city
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- Taglines
- Woody Allen's New Comedy Hit
- Genres
- Certificate
- K-7
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaMeryl Streep shot her scenes during breaks in filming Kramer vastaan Kramer (1979).
- GoofsIn the first scene at Elaine's, as Isaac is beginning to say something, two people (presumably customers of the restaurant, as it was running while they were shooting) walk in front of the camera. Isaac laughs, and quickly recovers with an impromptu remark about how his girlfriend has to go and do homework.
- Quotes
Isaac Davis: All the times I come over here, I can't understand how you can prefer her to me.
Jill: You can't understand that?
Isaac Davis: No. It's a mystery to me.
Jill: Well, you knew my history when you married me.
Isaac Davis: I know. My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful that I got another analyst.
- Crazy creditsOne of the very few Woody Allen films to not have traditional opening credits, save the production company bumper (United Artists), and the film title MANHATTAN is seen as a long vertical flashing bright neon sign, located on the side of a New York City building, and is seen for under seven seconds just before Woody Allen narrates his first line.
- ConnectionsEdited into Intimate Portrait: Diane Keaton (2001)
- SoundtracksRhapsody in Blue
(1924)
Music by George Gershwin
Performed by New York Philharmonic (as The New York Philharmonic)
Conducted by Zubin Mehta
Piano soloist: Paul Jacobs
Music director: Zubin Mehta
Top review
A maddening tribute to an egomaniac
I used to hold this film as somewhat of a sacred cow when I first saw it in 1979. I was a proscribed Woody fan and
although I still like a few of his movies, this is no longer one of them, on recent review.
I recently purchased copies of Manhattan and Annie Hall.
I watched the latter first and it charmed my socks off again. One classic scene after another signals the height of Allen's art in this hilarious masterwork. Manhattan is a different story.
Perhaps my recent viewing of Wild Man Blues has hipped
me to what an whining, pampered egomaniac Mr. Allen is.
Perhaps it's the irony of his Chaplin-like dalliances with young women that have set me against him. But I now watch Manhattan
and see a pathetic, overblown Allen literally feeding lines to his
fellow actors to give him some smarmy comeback that never fails to show how intellectually superior he is. Different from Annie Hall, Allen is no longer the underdog but an ugly, obnoxious
over-lord...
His characters in Manhattan, are cardboard. They are not real and
the situations are not real. I have no feeling for anyone in this
movie, except Woody, who I feel contempt for, given his massive
and unfunny self-indulgence. It's pathetic to see Allen set up
Hemingway with lines that a teenager would never say in a million
years, just to trump up his flaccid ego. Everyone in this movie actually feeds him lines to trump up his ego.
Like Stardust Memories, this one shows Woody at his self- indulgent worst. This movie looks wonderful and sounds wonderful with the Gershwin score, but on further review, this
one's hollow and ultimately a maddening tribute to an egomaniac.
although I still like a few of his movies, this is no longer one of them, on recent review.
I recently purchased copies of Manhattan and Annie Hall.
I watched the latter first and it charmed my socks off again. One classic scene after another signals the height of Allen's art in this hilarious masterwork. Manhattan is a different story.
Perhaps my recent viewing of Wild Man Blues has hipped
me to what an whining, pampered egomaniac Mr. Allen is.
Perhaps it's the irony of his Chaplin-like dalliances with young women that have set me against him. But I now watch Manhattan
and see a pathetic, overblown Allen literally feeding lines to his
fellow actors to give him some smarmy comeback that never fails to show how intellectually superior he is. Different from Annie Hall, Allen is no longer the underdog but an ugly, obnoxious
over-lord...
His characters in Manhattan, are cardboard. They are not real and
the situations are not real. I have no feeling for anyone in this
movie, except Woody, who I feel contempt for, given his massive
and unfunny self-indulgence. It's pathetic to see Allen set up
Hemingway with lines that a teenager would never say in a million
years, just to trump up his flaccid ego. Everyone in this movie actually feeds him lines to trump up his ego.
Like Stardust Memories, this one shows Woody at his self- indulgent worst. This movie looks wonderful and sounds wonderful with the Gershwin score, but on further review, this
one's hollow and ultimately a maddening tribute to an egomaniac.
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- jz1360
- Feb 1, 2004
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Мангеттен
- Filming locations
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $39,946,780
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $485,734
- Apr 29, 1979
- Gross worldwide
- $40,194,067
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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