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Hannah and Her Sisters

  • 19861986
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 47m
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7.8/10
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Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
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ComedyDrama
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
73K
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  • Director
    • Woody Allen
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen
  • Stars
    • Mia Farrow
    • Dianne Wiest
    • Michael Caine
  • Director
    • Woody Allen
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen
  • Stars
    • Mia Farrow
    • Dianne Wiest
    • Michael Caine
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 201User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 90Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 27 wins & 26 nominations total

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    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Hannah
    Dianne Wiest
    Dianne Wiest
    • Holly
    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Elliot
    Barbara Hershey
    Barbara Hershey
    • Lee
    Carrie Fisher
    Carrie Fisher
    • April
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan
    • Norma
    Lloyd Nolan
    Lloyd Nolan
    • Evan
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Frederick
    • (as Max Von Sydow)
    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    • Mickey
    Lewis Black
    Lewis Black
    • Paul
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    • Mary
    Christian Clemenson
    Christian Clemenson
    • Larry
    Julie Kavner
    Julie Kavner
    • Gail
    J.T. Walsh
    J.T. Walsh
    • Ed Smythe
    John Turturro
    John Turturro
    • Writer
    Rusty Magee
    • Ron
    Allen DeCheser
    • Hannah's Twins
    Artie DeCheser
    • Hannah's Twins
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Sir Michael Caine played Mia Farrow's husband. In real life, Caine had been a long-term friend to Farrow and Woody Allen, then a couple. He had been the one who introduced the couple to each other nearly twenty years before.
    • Goofs
      Mickey's audiometry doctor tells him he has a loss of hearing in the "high decibels" region. He clearly meant "high frequency" region, as "high decibels" refers to increased loudness.
    • Quotes

      Frederick: It's been ages since I sat in front to the TV. Just changing channels to find something. You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling, huh? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Power/Down and Out in Beverly Hills/Hannah and Her Sisters/The Best of Times (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Sola, perduta abbandonata
      Segment from the opera "Manon Lescaut" by Giacomo Puccini (as Puccini)

      Filmed at the Regio Theatre of Turin, Italy

      Performed by Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino (as The Orchestra of the Regio Theatre)

      Conductor - Angelo Campori

      Director - Carlo Maestrini

      Set by Pasquale Grossi

      Costumes - Tirelli Costumes, Rome

      Manon Lescaut - Maria Chiara

    User reviews201

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    Woody's more mature rumination on Manhattan life & love with an impeccable ensemble cast
    While I am a Woody Allen fanatic, I'm not sure if I agree with the minority of Woody fans who claim this is his best film, instead of "Annie Hall". Sure, I would be quick to elect "Annie" as Woody's best, but then I regard "Manhattan", "Stardust Memories", "Crimes & Misdemeanors", as well as "Hannah And Her Sisters", and I become unsure. This is certainly one of Woody's most mature films, and I would freely place it in my top five of Woody's works. It nicely balances comedy with drama, and it also began a new era of high accomplishment for Woody. Functioning as an ensemble drama loosely organized around three sisters, "Hannah" chronicles several stories at once. The film has an incredibly warm, intimate feeling about it, as people talk in their earth-toned apartments over J.S. Bach or stroll through the city's crisp autumn air. What rings most true about this film is that it doesn't end quite the way you thought it would (the words "too tidy" and "unpunished" get unfairly used a lot), yet it ends as it should.

    Ironically, Hannah (played by Mia Farrow) doesn't fare too deeply in the film. The eldest of three, she's the family matriarch soothing her aging parents, a showbiz couple reluctantly settling into old age and blaming each other for it. Her husband Elliot (Michael Caine expertly stuttering & flushing) is consumed with guilt over his heavy crush on Hannah's sensuous, down-to-earth sister, Lee. Lee is slowly pulling away from her failing relationship with Frederick (the always excellent Max Von Sydow), a horribly misanthropic curmudgeon whose reliance on her as his last link to humanity becomes suffocating. The youngest sister, Holly (Dianne Wiest - kicking ass as usual), is a nervous, impatient actress whose insecurity and lack of success lead to competing with her best friend April over work and men. Meanwhile, Hannah's ex-husband Mickey (Woody), a severe hypochondriac, is trying desperately to accept his eventual mortality and still find some meaning in life, which it what it seems all the other characters are trying to do. I won't say where the stories are going or where they all end up, but I will say the ensemble cast is all-around great, Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest are definitely the stand-outs here (their Oscars were well-deserved), but Max Von Sydow and Barbara Hershey do quite fine as well. As for Woody - Mickey is the kind of character that fans were probably waiting for him to play for years, and he pulls it off with his classic ticks & twitches.

    Woody's evident genius is shown here by juggling the separate stories back & forth so fluidly. Most attention seems to be focused on Elliot and Lee during the first half (both conflicted & confused), while the second half slightly centers around Mickey and Holly (both nervous & unsure). Mickey operates mostly as an outsider and the strength of his story doesn't pertain too much to "the sisters" (although there are two hysterical flashbacks sequences, one involving Hannah and the other detailing a disastrous date with Holly). Another masterstroke on Woody's part are the internal voice-overs. Woody is too smart to know that there are certain thoughts a person has that will exist only in their head, and extracting these feelings into some kind of dialogue with another person would seem forced. It's casual pacing, novelistic endeavors, vivid characters, cozy settings, heartfelt music and sharp, candid dialogue are what makes this film hold up beautifully for me after dozens of viewings. It's an absolute Woody Allen film.
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    • Sep 4, 2002

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 14, 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hannah i njezine sestre
    • Filming locations
      • Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden - 421 East 61st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Architecture tour: Abigail Adams Smith House Museum)
    • Production companies
      • Orion Pictures
      • Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $6,400,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $40,084,041
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,265,826
      • Feb 9, 1986
    • Gross worldwide
      • $40,084,041
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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