
Manhattan(1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.


“It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure.”
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Woody Allen
Cliff Stern

Martin Landau
Judah Rosenthal

Mia Farrow
Halley Reed

Alan Alda
Lester

Anjelica Huston
Dolores Paley

Joanna Gleason
Wendy Stern

Sam Waterston
Ben

Jerry Orbach
Jack Rosenthal
Jenny Nichols
Jenny

Caroline Aaron
Barbara
Crimes and Misdemeanors is a comedy, drama, crime film released in 1989 exploring themes of adultery, new york city, assassin, professor, brother-in-law, murder. Directed by Woody Allen, it stars Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow. A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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