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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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  • 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
    fb791220692
    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
    fb100000883534329
    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.
  • DreamExtractor
    August 18, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    A classic movie, Woody Allens masterpiece.
  • shortcartoonist
    May 31, 2011
    shortcartoonist
    In film, artists are given a short amount of time to create and convey characters and themes. Wrapped into a narrative, it is the tool of prioritising traits and reactions that are used to best gauge a person on screen. With 'Annie Hall', Woody Allen is not so much conveying a na... read morerrative. There is no start or end but instead a familiar chapter in the larger story of life.

    His focus is a look at the lines connecting and separating the dual parts of a relationship and it is the level of conveyance that Allen ultimately achieves that gives a strong understanding. In a 90 minute feature, there is a greater insight than films twice it's length.

    Sweet and bitter, 'Annie Hall' is everything a relationship is and should be. It is an easy and enjoyable affair as the familiarisation of these lives is being explored. As love gestates and evolves, difficulties ensue and realities look to brush away the early romancing. The reality of the film and its effortless cramming of scenes is key. But it is in the fact that we - the audience - know throughout that this romance is doomed, fleeting, that sets it apart. Each character is open to personal bias and like, but their relationship is now pushed into a more objective viewpoint.
  • movieguru12
    May 6, 2011
    movieguru12
    This is such a cute movie. Woody Allen is this babbling, cute little man who drives Diane Keaton's character insane. Seriously, Woody Allen is such a cute little man I could put him in my pocket. This is the first Woody Allen movie I've ever seen and I really enjoyed this comi... read morecal movie, and hope to watch more WA films. Love this movie!!!!! An all time classic!!! :) :) :)

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Critic Reviews

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

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

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

February 13, 2012
Total Film

Many things mark Annie Hall's place in cinema history, but none of them are the reason you should see this movie. That would be the humour, poignancy and acute observation contained in each and every ... Full Review

Tim Radford
February 13, 2012
Tim Radford, Guardian [UK]

In Annie Hall, Allen again writes, directs and stars with Diane Keaton in a remarkable recreation of a spent love affair, which is both sad and hysterically funny. Full Review

James Plath
February 10, 2012
James Plath, Movie Metropolis

Seeing it again for the first time in many years, I'm struck by how perfect it seems. Full Review

Kevin Carr
February 6, 2012
Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

A funny film, and it's fresh even today, though it's not a knee-slapper. Rather, it's a shrug-your-shoulder-and-grin kind of movie. Full Review

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    • Alvy Singer: I really wanted to be an anarchist but I didn't know where to register.
    • Alvy Singer: [addresses a pair of strangers on the street] Here, you look like a very happy couple, um, are you?
    • Street Stranger: Yeah.
    • Alvy Singer: Yeah? So, so, how do you account for it?
    • Street Stranger: Uh, I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
    • Street Stranger: And I'm exactly the same way.
    • Alvy Singer: I see. Wow. That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something?
    • Alvy's Psychiatrist: [Alvy and Annie are seeing their therapists at the same time on a split screen] How often do you sleep together?
    • Annie's Psychiatrist: Do you have sex often?
    • Alvy Singer: [lamenting] Hardly ever. Maybe three times a week.
    • Annie Hall: [annoyed] Constantly. I'd say three times a week.
    • Alvy Singer: I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.
    • Alvy Singer: What is this, you got Black Soap?
    • Alvy Singer: Love is too weak a word. I lurve you, I loave you, I luff you.
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