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Another Woman

  • 19881988
  • PGPG
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
14K
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POPULARITY
14,137
3,750
Mia Farrow and Gena Rowlands in Another Woman (1988)
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
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Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
14K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
14,137
3,750
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    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
    • Stars
      • Gena Rowlands
      • Mia Farrow
      • Ian Holm
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
    • Stars
      • Gena Rowlands
      • Mia Farrow
      • Ian Holm
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    • 88User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

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    Gena Rowlands
    Gena Rowlands
    • Marion
    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Hope
    Ian Holm
    Ian Holm
    • Ken
    Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner
    • Lydia
    Gene Hackman
    Gene Hackman
    • Larry
    Betty Buckley
    Betty Buckley
    • Kathy
    Martha Plimpton
    Martha Plimpton
    • Laura
    John Houseman
    John Houseman
    • Marion's Father
    Sandy Dennis
    Sandy Dennis
    • Claire
    David Ogden Stiers
    David Ogden Stiers
    • Young Marion's Father
    Philip Bosco
    Philip Bosco
    • Sam
    Harris Yulin
    Harris Yulin
    • Paul
    Frances Conroy
    Frances Conroy
    • Lynn
    Fred Melamed
    Fred Melamed
    • Patient's Voice…
    Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh
    • Donald
    Bruce Jay Friedman
    • Mark
    Bernie Leighton
    • Piano Player
    Jack Gelber
    • Birthday Party Guest
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
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    • Trivia
      Woody Allen is not known for complimenting his actors, saying that the fact that he casts them is proof that he considers them great. However, he has said that the scenes between Gena Rowlands and Gene Hackman, particularly in the flashback of the party, were "electrifying."
    • Goofs
      Whilst it is true that the tune of Gymnopédie No. 1 is played at the beginning of the film, it is not the piano version but rather the orchestral version orchestrated by Debussy. For some unknown reason, Debussy changed the numbers of the Gymnopédies: thus the orchestral version of Gymnopédie No. 3 bears the tune of Gymnopédie No. 1!
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Marion: [voiceover] I closed the book, and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope, and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost. For the first time in a long time, I felt at peace.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Accused/Another Woman/Madame Sousatzka/Hotel Terminus/Clara's Heart (1988)
    • Soundtracks
      Gymnopédie No 1
      (1888)

      Music by Erik Satie

      Performed by Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

      Conducted by Louis Auriacombe

      Courtesy of EMI Pathé-Marconi/Capitol Records Special Markets

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    Top review
    10/10
    Returning to Bergmanesque Roots
    It's worth noting that in 1978, ten years before he made "Another Woman," Woody Allen created another quiet film, a drama with prominent Bergmanesque influences. The film was called "Interiors," and it was a tribute, or an American take on Bergman's "Cries and Whispers." "Interiors" examined the relationships of three sisters and their husbands in the face of the divorce of their dominant mother and detached father. The film essentially detailed the fall of "interiors," or illusory worlds created by the dominant mother in the face of tragedy and loneliness.

    "Another Woman," made ten years later, shares similar themes with "Interiors," but it is more akin to Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" than to "Cries and Whispers." It is a story of a university professor, played spectacularly by Gena Rowlands, in whom something stirs when she overhears a therapy session with a young 30-something woman who is discontent with her life. The professor, Marion, feels an emptiness rise inside her - an emptiness that had settled there years before, that she can consciously feel now. Little by little, like in "Interiors," the world she has constructed for herself, a cold, cerebral world, deconstructs.

    Marion despairs, enters into conflicts with herself, and questions endlessly trying to reason her way out of her malaise. But the cure for her malaise is not rational resolution and she, realizing that her strongest characteristic (namely her rational intelligence) is not enough to untangle what worries her, finds herself entirely helpless in the face of an unraveling existence.

    Her drama is very much like the drama of Professor Isak Borg from Bergman's film, a man on his way to receive a medal for his lifetime achievements. And, on the road, he also succumbs to the same malaise as Marion, the same questioning and the same painful re-evaluation. The horror shared by both Marion and Professor Borg, of course, is that despite their highly lauded accomplishments and their intellectual self-satisfaction, they feel void. There must, in other words, be something else to life than strictly intellectual work, however satisfying it may be.

    In Bergman (both "Cries and Whispers" and "Wild Strawberries") and in Allen (both "Interiors" and "Another Woman") life falls under question. The entire existence is evaluated, its worth and meaning doubted. In "Interiors" and "Cries and Whispers," however, the meaninglessness pervades everything in the films - the dialogues, behaviors and even visuals. The sisters in "Interiors" shatter the mother's reality and find nothingness - they continue as they were, much like the two sisters in "Cries and Whispers" for whom the death of their young sister changed absolutely nothing, and only confirmed their beliefs about the world.

    However, "Another Woman" is not as stark (though it is stark indeed at times). Marion grabs at the chance to re-evaluate the life she feels she painfully wasted and tries to start again. It's not a false choice, or a gimmick on Allen's part, but it's a true depiction of Marion's sincere desire to continue to struggle because her life does have value for her. She rediscovers a passion for the struggle and her motivation is the same curiosity that made her go through the questioning process in the first place.

    "Another Woman" is a testament to the fact that Woody Allen was still at the top of his game in the late 1980s. It is a brilliant, honest and (surprisingly) warm film. It is not a remake or rip-off of Bergman's work, though it is highly influenced by him (which shouldn't seem so surprising to anyone, because Bergman himself was influenced by the most basic questions of existence). "Another Woman" is an existential film that is both uncompromising and not hopeless. It's one of my favorite Woody Allen films and it reveals to us not only a great American director, but one whose films are of worldly greatness.
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    • Release date
      • November 18, 1988 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Eine andere Frau
    • Filming locations
      • Alpine, New Jersey, USA
    • Production company
      • Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,562,749
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $75,196
      • Oct 16, 1988
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,562,749
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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