A story between two Thanksgivings.
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20257/10
“Hannah” (Mia Farrow) is ostensibly the luckier of the three daughters of an erstwhile actress who has a penchant for the bottle and deludes herself into thinking she is still a bit of a boy-magnet! It’s lucky for the family that she is there for her other sisters “Holly” (Dianne Wiest) and “Lee” (Barbara Hershey) don’t have their own problems to seek. The whole thing now plays out like a top-notch radio play with emotionally internecine personas played out to the full as the neuroses thrive, the stereotypes wrestle each other for prominence and poor old Michael Caine finds his “Elliot” - married to “Hannah” - character constantly scratching his head when he isn’t ducking it. Sister “Holly” is a bit of a loose cannon. An under-employed actress who thinks she would be better off catering instead. Just to make matters worse, she hooks up with “Mickey” (Woody Allen). Now here’s a fruit loop if ever you’ve seen one. He used to be married to “Hannah” but now lives day to day convinced that each one is going to be his last! Moreover, his (Jewish) faith has long since gone the way of the dodo, so what will happen to him afterwards? Meantime, “Lee” is sitting waiting to be discovered. A bl
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Cast
- Mia FarrowHannah
- Barbara HersheyLee
- Dianne WiestHolly
- Woody AllenMickey Sachs
- Michael CaineElliot
- Lloyd NolanEvan
- Maureen O'SullivanNorma
- Carrie FisherApril Knox
- Julie KavnerGail
- Max von SydowFrederick
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- Woody AllenDirector
- Woody AllenWriter
- Carlo Di PalmaDirector of Photography
- Susan E. MorseEditor
- Robert GreenhutProducer
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