Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - 35th Anniversary Screening
Schedule
Sun Apr 21 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:55 pm
Location
Academy Cinemas | Auckland, AU
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A special 35th anniversary screening of a film many rank as amongst Woody Allen's very best!104 mins | Rated PG | Comedy
Directed by Woody Allen | Starring Martin Landau, Alan Alda, Daryl Hannah, Jerry Orbach, Claire Bloom, Sam Waterston, Caroline Aaron, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow
Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness.
Dr. Judah Rosenthal is a prominent ophthalmologist with a successful practice, a loving family, and a reputation for generous charity work. But Rosenthal also has a secret: his mistress, Dolores. What began as a casual fling has become uncomfortably intimate, and as he tries to break off the relationship, Dolores threatens to expose his infidelity to his wife and some unorthodox financial arrangements to his colleagues. Fearful that Dolores will make good on her threats, Judah confesses his secret to his brother Jack, who has ties to organised crime and offers to "make the problem go away." Meanwhile, Cliff Stern is a filmmaker working on his pet project, a documentary about philosopher Prof. Louis Levy. However, films about philosophers don't pay the rent, so Cliff's wife Wendy arranges for him to make a documentary for public television about her brother Lester, a famous TV comedian whose vapidity is exceeded only by his arrogance. While Cliff tries to bite the bullet and finish the film, he finds himself falling in love with producer Halley Reed.
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Where is it happening?
Academy Cinemas, 44 Lorne St, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand,Auckland, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
