
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York City stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would wa... (Full plot summary below)
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Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York City stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAnnie Hall is a movie about a man who is always looking for the loopholes in perfection. Who can turn everything into a joke, and wishes he couldn't. |
| Time Out LondonNick BradshawHe invites viewers to laugh with him at him: rather a subject than an object of ridicule, he lances his neuroses preemptively, controlling the exposure. It’s a limited strategy, but still glamorising in its way – if you can’t be Bogart-smooth in all things, such a fund of wisecracks is a start. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichThis is the link between Allen's "earlier, funnier" stuff and more probing works like Interiors and Manhattan. Would that we all could build such masterful bridges. |
| TIME MagazineRichard SchickelPersonal as the story he is telling may be, what separates this film from Allen's own past work and most other recent comedy is its general believability. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawLovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90. It's like drinking champagne. |
| Time OutNigel FloydIf you can forgive the fact that it's a ragbag of half-digested intellectual ideas dressed up with trendy intellectual references, you should have a good laugh. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealLifelong anhedonia may have robbed Allen of happiness, but at least it gave him some material. |
| Window to the MoviesJeffrey ChenI love how honest this movie is. It's raw, it's awkward, and it's ugly, but it's all right there and right on. |
| EmpireColin KennedyThis is the film that the movie world had been anticipating since the man born Allen Stewart Konigsberg had signaled his raw comedic talents with mad-cap directorial debut, Take The Money And Run, nine years earlier. Marrying the free-flowing sketch form of those early comedies with real emotional and psychological depth for the first, and, arguably, most successful, time. |
| Apollo GuideDan JardineThat this Woody Allen film is of such raw-nerved honesty is admirable. That it is also so incessantly funny is remarkable. |