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Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and... read more read more... his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different. Along the rocky road of their coupling, Allen/Alvy weigh in on such topics as endless therapy, movies vs. TV, the absurdity of dating rituals, anti-Semitism, drugs, and, in one of the best set pieces, repressed Midwestern WASP insanity vs. crazy Brooklyn Jewish boisterousness. Annie wants to move to Los Angeles to find that fame that finally does in the relationship -- but not before Alvy gets in a few digs at vacuous, mantra-fixated California. Originally entitled Anhedonia (the inability to enjoy oneself), Annie Hall blended the slapstick and fantasy from such earlier Allen films as Sleeper (1973) and Bananas (1971) with the more autobiographical musings of his stand-up and written comedy, using an array of such movie techniques as talking heads, splitscreens, and subtitles. Within these gleeful formal experiments and sight gags, Allen and co-writer Marshall Brickman skewered 1970s solipsism, reversing the happy marriage of opposites found in classic screwball comedies. Hailed as Allen's most mature and personal film, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture and also won Oscars for Allen as director and writer and for Keaton as Best Actress; audiences enthusiastically responded to Allen's take on contemporary love and turned Keaton's rumpled menswear into a fashion trend. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Release Date: April 20, 1977

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  • danperry17
    February 23, 2013
    danperry17
    Creative for its time, and it must have been a real shock to Allen's fans - who'd see this coming after Bananas, Love and Death, etc.? - but it's a film I find grossly overrated. Landmark performance for Diane Keaton, and a script with lots of twists and turns (not to mention som... read moree great zingers), but for a non-cliched ending like this one it's still rather twee. And though I know it's the point, it's not much fun watching such unlikeable characters. A valuable film that showed a new side of Woody Allen - a dramatic one - but one that's not nearly as fun to watch as reported to be. It's important to see but I don't think it ages well.
  • fb1686480544
    October 27, 2012
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    Poignant, hilarious, subversive. Definitive Woody.
  • c0up
    August 31, 2012
    c0up
    'Annie Hall'. I'm head over heels in love with Diane Keaton's Annie. Woody Allen as Alvy is a neurotic, wickedly funny, meta literate that is punching so absurdly above his weight!

    The dialogue hums along, and the whole film is consistently funny and smart. A wonderful romantic ... read morecomedy.
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    May 1, 2012
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    A nervous romance.

    The film that bested Star Wars for the 1977 Best Picture Oscar, Annie Hall is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking that transcends its simple, romantic premise to create a stunning portrait of not only 70's pop culture, but of human nature cumulative. Woody... read more Allen is brilliant as he usually is. Diane Keaton hit super-stardom as well with her role. The supporting cast includes the likes of Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall, Tony Roberts, Christopher Walken and Colleen Dewhurst. Look for an unknown Jeff Goldblum as an extra during the Los Angeles sequence. Very good movie. If your into movies a lot you need to see this.

    Annie Hall is a film about a comedian, Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), who falls in love with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Both of the characters are completely different but both strikingly entertaining and unusual. Alvy is an extreme pessimist that obsesses over the subject of death and has very sarcastic and cynical views about the world and the people around him. Annie is a ditsy and clumsy talented singer and photographer. When Alvy and Annie meet for the first time they are instantly attracted to each other and as a result their conversations are awkward but never the less adorable. The film takes you through the couple's love lives, before and after their relationship. Alvy often comes out of the scene he is in to talk directly to the audience about his views on whatever situation he is in, this makes the film unusual but more interesting. The film is very sweet and funny but unfortunately quite sad as well.
  • lewiskendell
    March 26, 2012
    lewiskendell
    Before Annie Hall, I had only seen the more recent Woody Allen movies. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (very good), Match Point (good), and Scoop (awful). Needless to say Annie Hall was a bit of a shock. It was was very different from those later Allen films.

    I love how Woody is unafr... read moreaid to throw any and everything at the viewer. Any story-telling device or technique that he wants to use, he just goes for it. Talking directly to the audience, flashbacks, asides, they all combine to tell the story of a relationship - piece by piece. This isn't a straightforward narrative, and it's a better movie as a result. Every time I thought things were beginning to bog down a little, some awesome joke or interesting narrative flourish would come out of nowhere and jolt my interest back into what was going on. That's how you make a relationship movie interesting for those who typically avoid these kinds of flicks.

    Take all those complimentary things I've just said and wrap them in the kind of bittersweet, memorable ending that I love, and you have Annie Hall in a nutshell. I never really appreciated how smart Woody is, before i watched this. It's funny and intelligent and full of the kind of references and jokes that makes me wish I could write this kind of thing. Great movie.
  • fb791220692
    February 16, 2012
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    As painfully honest (and sometimes warped) as Woody Allen's films are known to be, Annie Hall is charming thanks to the performances and the chemistry, but its structurally off-putting and repetitive. Allen writes the movie's problems right into the script at one point, but ackn... read moreowledging something doesn't make it go away.
  • fb100000883534329
    January 10, 2012
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    I found this film humorist but dont think it's any better then most of Woodie Allens one note films. I like the change of story but all jokes seemed sort of forced.
  • paulkoh110
    December 29, 2011
    paulkoh110
    Its a romance that captures the quirkiness in us all. Its a romance that commentates on the idea of love itself. Woody Allen may have had his share of failed relationships but Annie Hall is the most artful way for him to vent about his emotions about them. Its not a masterpiece b... read moreut its a classic.
  • superjoker1
    November 25, 2011
    superjoker1
    Although Annie Hall's apparent lack of structure annoyed me at first, I soon realized that there was no need for structure. Woody Allen just lays it all out on the screen, and it's a wonderfully funny and observant tour de force. Woody himself is the perfect centerpiece for a por... read moretrait of life that seems almost to be both a cartoon and a documentary. Diane Keaton is likeable and amusing as Annie. Tony Roberts is laugh out loud funny as Allens best friend in a performance that, while seemingly simple, is perfectly measured and texturized. Mordecai Lawner and Joan Neuman are obnoxiously entertaining in their brief roles as Allen's parents. The end product is a movie that's bitter sweet. It stings you but makes you grin at the same time, and it covers more ground, emotion, and philosophy during its ninety minute running time than most two hour thirty minute movies can claim.
  • spielberg00
    November 11, 2011
    spielberg00
    ANNIE HALL was a decent, honest, and sometimes hilarious look at relationships in romantic comedy format (somehow it's not at all a chick flick), but there's no way it should have ever won the Best Picture Oscar, particularly over STAR WARS.

    Before I saw this, I was pretty sure ... read morethat the biggest Oscar disappointment was either THE COLOR PURPLE not winning Best Picture, or THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION not winning Best Picture. Now I'm almost positive that STAR WARS not winning is numero uno, since it lost to something like this. And 98% of Rotten Tomatoes critics liked it? Talk about ridicule.

    That's not to say this was a bad film. It's just far too overrated. Both Woody Allen and Diane Keaton make this a hoot, with odd double entendres and euphemisms that eventually evolve into hilarity after a while. The irking thing is that the plot is, overall, dull, and no matter how many times Allen breaks the fourth wall, we can't really ever buy the talking-to-the-camera joke into our believability.

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Critic Reviews

Keith Uhlich
February 19, 2013
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

This 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. Full Review

Richard Schickel
February 20, 2009
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

Personal 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. Full Review

Joseph McBride
February 19, 2008
Joseph McBride, Variety

A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date. Full Review

Dave Kehr
December 13, 2006
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags. Full Review

Geoff Andrew
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew, Time Out

If 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. Full Review

Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

There will be discussion about what points in the film coincide with the lives of its two stars, but this, I think, is to detract from and trivialize the achievement of the film, which, at last, puts ...

Roger Ebert
May 26, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Watching it again, 25 years after its April 1977 premiere, I am astonished by how scene after scene has an instant familiarity. Full Review

Robert Hatch
February 12, 2013
Robert Hatch, The Nation

Annie Hall, for all its vagaries, is a funny, often touching, sometimes astute picture. Full Review

Jaime N. Christley
June 17, 2012
Jaime N. Christley, Slant Magazine

Woody Allen's classic comedy has one opening scene after another, never seeming to run short of prologues and prefaces. Full Review

Bryant Frazer
March 11, 2012
Bryant Frazer, Film Freak Central

Annie Hall expanded Woody Allen's canvas to incorporate real wisdom alongside the punchlines. Full Review

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    • Annie Hall: Do you want chocolate milk?
    • Alvy Singer: What am I your son?
    • Alvy Singer: That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing.
    • Alvy Singer: I don't respond well to mellow. If I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
    • Pam: I'm a Rosicrucian myself.
    • Alvy Singer: Are you?
    • Pam: Yeah.
    • Alvy Singer: I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.
    • Mom Hall: Ann tells us that you've been seeing a psychiatrist for fifteen years.
    • Alvy Singer: Yes. I'm making excellent progress. Pretty soon when I lie down on his couch, I won't have to wear the lobster bib.
    • Annie Hall: La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
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