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Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia

Original title: Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • 19891989
  • K-12K-12
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
58K
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Woody Allen and Martin Landau in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
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  • Comedy
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An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

IMDb RATING
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58K
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  • Director
    • Woody Allen
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen
  • Stars
    • Martin Landau
    • Woody Allen
    • Bill Bernstein
Top credits
  • Director
    • Woody Allen
  • Writer
    • Woody Allen
  • Stars
    • Martin Landau
    • Woody Allen
    • Bill Bernstein
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    • 192User reviews
    • 99Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 3 Oscars
      • 16 wins & 26 nominations total

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    Crimes And Misdemeanors
    Trailer 1:36
    Crimes And Misdemeanors

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    Woody Allen and Martin Landau in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Woody Allen and Martin Landau in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Woody Allen and Martin Landau in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Woody Allen in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Anjelica Huston and Martin Landau in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Woody Allen and Joanna Gleason in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
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    Mia Farrow in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)
    Woody Allen in Rikoksia ja rikkomuksia (1989)

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    Martin Landau
    Martin Landau
    • Judah Rosenthalas Judah Rosenthal
    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    • Cliff Sternas Cliff Stern
    Bill Bernstein
    • Testimonial Speakeras Testimonial Speaker
    Claire Bloom
    Claire Bloom
    • Miriam Rosenthalas Miriam Rosenthal
    Stephanie Roth Haberle
    Stephanie Roth Haberle
    • Sharon Rosenthalas Sharon Rosenthal
    • (as Stephanie Roth)
    Gregg Edelman
    Gregg Edelman
    • Chrisas Chris
    George J. Manos
    • Photographeras Photographer
    • (as George Manos)
    Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston
    • Dolores Paleyas Dolores Paley
    Jenny Nichols
    • Jennyas Jenny
    Joanna Gleason
    Joanna Gleason
    • Wendy Sternas Wendy Stern
    Alan Alda
    Alan Alda
    • Lesteras Lester
    Sam Waterston
    Sam Waterston
    • Benas Ben
    Zina Jasper
    • Carolas Carol
    Dolores Sutton
    Dolores Sutton
    • Judah's Secretaryas Judah's Secretary
    Joel Fogel
    • T.V. Produceras T.V. Producer
    • (as Joel S. Fogel)
    Donna Castellano
    • T.V. Produceras T.V. Producer
    Thomas Crowe
    • T.V. Produceras T.V. Producer
    • (as Thomas P. Crow)
    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Halley Reedas Halley Reed
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
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    Storyline

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    Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair. When he intercepts a letter Dolores has written to his wife Miriam, he is frantic. He confesses all to his shady brother Jack who assures him that he has friends who can take care of her. Meanwhile, filmmaker Cliff Stern is having his own problems. He's been working on a documentary film for some time but has yet to complete it. He and his wife Wendy have long ago stopped loving one another and are clearly on their way to divorce. He falls in love with Halley Reed who works with a producer, Lester. Cliff soon finds himself making a documentary about Lester and hates every minute of it. —garykmcd
    • documentary filmmaker
    • mistress
    • adultery
    • brother
    • guilty conscience
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    • Taglines
      • A film about humanity.
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Drama
    • Certificate
      • K-12
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Lester is based on Larry Gelbart, whom both Woody Allen and Alan Alda worked with and reportedly disliked because of his despotic ways. Lester's various comments such as "Comedy is tragedy plus time" and "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it isn't" were actual Gelbart quotes. In spite of this reputed dislike for Gelbart, Allen called him "the best comedy writer that I ever knew and one of the best guys" in a statement shortly following Gelbart's death, whilst Alda said in the Los Angeles Times obituary, "Larry's genius for writing changed my life because I got to speak his lines - lines that were so good they'll be with us for a long, long time; but his other genius - his immense talent for being good company - is a light that's gone out and we're all sitting here in the dark".
    • Goofs
      (at 1:31:03) While they are celebrating at the wedding party the theme "Crazy Rhythm" is been played by the jazz orchestra, a muted trumpet can be heard but the trumpet player isn't using one.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Professor Levy: [voiceover] We are all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions. Moral choices. Some are on a grand scale. Most of these choices are on lesser points. But! We define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are in fact the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to have been included, in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love, that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying, and even to find joy from simple things like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Fabulous Baker Boys/Breaking In/Crimes and Misdemeanors/Look Who's Talking (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Rosalie
      (1937)

      Written by Cole Porter

      Performed by the Jazz Band

    User reviews192

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Slyly written, handsomely made serio-comic Woody Allen...
    Writer-director Woody Allen smoothly examines the parallels between a nervous documentary filmmaker in love with an indifferent female producer and a celebrated family man contemplating having his frustrated, frustrating mistress bumped off. A serious-comedy, saddled with a bit of pretentious banter as well as a draggy sub-plot with Sam Waterston as a rabbi losing his sight. Still, the incredibly rich performances from a well-chosen group of actors strengthen the film, including Woody as the filmmaker, Alan Alda as his egomaniacal film subject and brother-in-law, Mia Farrow, Martin Landau (in the film's best turn), Anjelica Huston, Caroline Aaron and Jerry Orbach. One of Allen's finest endeavors, cleverly-maneuvered and sly; it is by turns witty, beguiling, funny and ironic. ***1/2 from ****
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    • moonspinner55
    • Mar 24, 2006

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 16, 1990 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Hebrew
    • Also known as
      • Brott och förseelser
    • Filming locations
      • Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $19,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $18,254,702
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $911,385
      • Oct 15, 1989
    • Gross worldwide
      • $18,254,702
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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