Film

Mighty Aphrodite 1995

Directed by Woody Allen

  • Comedy, Romance
  • 95 min
  • R

Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.

ComedyRomanceprostituteadoptionadoptive fatherchild prodigychildlessnesslooking for birth parentsporn staradoptive motherillegal prostitutionpygmalionkidsadopted son

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Comic, contemporary, warm and spare.

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  • contemporarynostalgic
  • warmbleak
  • sparerichly built
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28 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Ironists.

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