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Manhattan
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One of Woody Allen's best-known films, the 1979 comedy-drama Manhattan is almost universally beloved by fans and critics and famously loathed by the director himself, who even asked United Artists not to release it.The plot revolves around a group of intellectual, semi-bohemian friends living in Manhattan, every one of whom has his own problems, intertwining with those of the others. Isaac "Ike" Davis (Allen) is a neurotic, self-ironic, impulsive, middle-aged aspiring writer, whose wife Jill (Meryl Streep), the mother of his son Willie, divorced him after discovering that she's in fact a lesbian and now is writing an autobiographical novel about their former relationship. Tracy (Academy Award nominated Mariel Hemingway), his 17-year-old lover, has to deal with her growing love towards Ike and the age difference between her and the majority of Ike's friends. Ike's friend Yale (Michael Murphy) dreams of becoming a writer, even though his wife Emily (Anne Byrne) strongly suggests that it's time to settle down and have kids; his life changes even more when he meets Mary (Diane Keaton), an extroverted, erudite journalist. Mary quickly becomes infatuated, but it is hard for her to say whether the object of her feelings is Ike or Yale. Also in the mix are Mary's ex-boyfriend Jeremiah (Wallace Shawn) and Jill's new partner Connie (Karen Ludwig). First, Hilarity Ensues, then, as usual in Allen's works, things become more complicated.In many respects it resembles Annie Hall: not only because a female protagonist is played in both films by Diane Keaton but also because it shows that the most important problems associated with relationships simply cannot be solved once and for ever - all this in a typical Allenian sweet-and-sour, self-ironic mood. However, in Manhattan the distinction between primary and secondary characters is much more fluid, so the movie is more about the particular situations than persons. One of the important subjects explored is maturity and its relation to the conflict between emotions and reason; however, this being a Woody Allen movie, it is mainly about love, human imperfection and the difficulties which stem from them.Noted as one of the first films to be released on home video in the Letterbox aspect ratio, paving the way for widescreen video releases, primarily on LaserDisc. The letterbox format was actually requested by Allen himself, wanting to preserve as much of Gordon Willis' cinematography as possible.Not to be confused with the 2014 television series Manhattan. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Wallace Shawn as Mary's ex-boyfriend Jeremiah. She's spent all film hyping his intelligence and sexual prowess, and Ike is astonished to meet what he calls "a humunculous". Bella Abzug appeared as herself at a real function that was shot by the film. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Too many to count, but most notably Ike trying to run his wife's lover over with a car. | |
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Betty and Veronica Switch | |
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Betty and Veronica Switch: Ike (Archie) has to chose between Tracy and Mary. At first, Tracy seems to be the Veronica. She is only 17 and Ike thinks that she is just a kid and that she will dump him as soon as she meets a boy of her age. Mary seems to be a safer choice, because she is older. Actually, just after starting a relationship with Ike, Mary meets Yale again in secret and soon she dumps Ike to get back with Yale. Ike realizes that Tracy really loved him, so he tries to convince her to resume their relationship. Tracy tells him that she hasn't had a new boyfriend in the meanwhile, that she has to go to London for 6 months, but that she will remain faithful to him, so they can resume their relationship when she comes back. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Ike (42) and Tracy (17). | |
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Better as Friends | |
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Better as Friends: Ike and Jill. It even seems they knew it already during their relationship: | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Isaac invokes the trope, calling Mary "pithy and degenerate". | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Ike and Mary start to bond because they're both neurotics seeing psychoanalysts who have a lot to say about life and art. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: | |
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Love Epiphany | |
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Love Epiphany: Ike realizes that Tracy is the one for him when, on the list of things that make life worth living, "Tracy's face" comes up. | |
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Jews Love to Argue | |
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Jews Love to Argue: As shown by the debates between Ike and Yale. | |
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AmicablyDivorced | |
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Amicably Divorced: Isaac and Jill are divorced, but it doesn't stop them to behave Like an Old Married Couple from time to time. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Tracy believes people can't be corrupted easily, and that young love can last forever. The older Isaac dismisses a lot of her idealism, saying she'll change as she gets older. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Mary breaks up with Isaac to return to Yale, despite her saying she didn't want to be a mistress and that she thinks he's a manchild, and the men's friendship is over. Isaac realizes Tracy is his true love, and though he's able to reconcile with her, she's still leaving for London for six months; however, she admits she hasn't had another boyfriend and assures him she'll be faithful to him, and he smiles dubiously at Tracy when she says, "Not everyone gets corrupted". | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Ike is divorced from Jill, who dumped him to get into a relationship with Connie. Ike is in a relationship with Tracy. Yale is married with Emily, but cheat on her with Mary. Mary and Ike develop a relationship. After Yale breaks up with Emily, Ike dumps Tracy to start a relationship with Mary. Mary breaks up with him to get back with Yale. Ike finally realizes he loves Tracy and proposes her to resume their relationship. | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Whereas Tracy likes to comfort Ike and make him feel relaxed, Mary likes to drag him out and show him around, such as pressing him to take a walk with her because the weather is nice, only for it to start thunderstorming immediately. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: In spite — or because — of the black'n'white vision. The title says it all. Gordon Willis' cinematography for this film is considered one of his best efforts.note Sadly, it was ignored by the Oscars. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Most Writers Are Writers: Ike is a writer for television, but he would like to start writing novels. His friend Yale is also a writer. Mary is a journalist. Jill is writing a book about her divorce from Ike. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Jeremiah is talked up by Mary as being "devastating" in bed and an overall sexual dynamo. Ike meets him, and is astonished it's Wallace Shawn. He calls him a "little homunculus". Despite being a nervous, rather average-looking wreck, Isaac has affairs with multiple attractive women, and even his lesbian ex-wife is beautiful. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The film begins with a shot of the sunrise over Manhattan, and ends with the sunset, both accompanied by different movements from Rhapsody in Blue. | |
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Bookworm | |
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Bookworm: Ike, Yale and Mary are all serious readers and get into debates over the worthiness of authors. | |
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Directed by Cast Member | |
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Directed By Castmember: Typical of Allen, who also stars as Ike. | |
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Visit by Divorced Dad | |
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Visit by Divorced Dad: Ike and Willie spend a pleasant afternoon together, where Willie humorously tries to get the (now-unemployed) Ike to buy him a big model ship. | |
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Incompatible Orientation | |
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Incompatible Orientation: Jill towards Isaac. (However, it is suggested that it may also be a case of bisexuality in connection with Sorry, I'm Gay.) | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: The Irony that the adults are immature, whining, and neurotic, while the teenager is mature, level-headed and secure. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is used brilliantly. | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: Ike's "Why Life Is Worth Living" speech to his tape recorder, including Louis Armstrong and deli dishes, and ending with Tracy's face. | |
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Emotions vs. Stoicism | |
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Emotions vs. Stoicism: Isaac and Mary. | |
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Dramatic Stutter | |
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Dramatic Stutter: Happens to Ike. | |
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Aspect Ratio | |
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Aspect Ratio: At Allen's request, this film was never edited to pan-and-scan for VHS release or television airings. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: As usual in Allen's movies. Isaac is a television writer, something Allen started out as. | |
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Race for Your Love | |
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Race for Your Love: Isaac runs/jogs across Manhattan to try and speak to Tracy before she leaves for Europe. He's shown trying to call her from a pay phone, and on occasion bending over, winded. He catches her about to leave, waiting for a taxi in her building lobby with all of her luggage. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: Played with, in the conversations between Ike and Tracy about Tracy's travel to London. | |
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Jewish Complaining | |
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Jewish Complaining: According to Jill, Ike was prone to do that. | |
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The Shrink | |
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The Shrink: Mary calls hers Donny. | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
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Teacher/Student Romance: Mary explains that Jeremiah was her teacher. She had bad grades even if she was in relationship with him. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Ike trying to run over Jill's lesbian lover with his car, as well as Jill's eventually tell-all book. | |
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Jailbait Taboo | |
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Jailbait Taboo: Ike (42) is in a relationship with Tracy who is only 17. At some point, he says that he really enjoys this relationship as long as the cops do not show up. The film was rated R precisely for this reason; even with the (admittedly few) F bombs sprinkled in the dialogue, this might have been rated PG if not for this trope being a key plot element. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jill's book is one long speech against Isaac. | |
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Slice of Life | |
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Slice of Life: It's a small, intimate portrait of the interpersonal lives of a few people in New York. | |
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The Three Faces of Eve | |
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The Three Faces of Eve: Very fitting to the Freudian Trio pattern: with Tracy as a child (or the Ego, in the process of development), Emily as a wife (or the Superego, exhorting to emotional maturity), and Mary as a seductress (or the wild Id). | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Most of the main cast, a group of neurotic, abrasive intellectuals who hold very high opinions of themselves, even in moments of self-deprecation. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Played with. Mary decides to go with Yale anyway, while Isaac is convinced that Tracy will forget all about him after her trip. | |
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Writer's Block | |
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Writer's Block: The movie begins with a mild case of this, with Ike unable to get moving on his book. | |
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Technically a Smile | |
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Technically a Smile: When Tracy tells Isaac that she'll be back from London in six months, and that she'll still love him when she returns ("Not everybody gets corrupted; you have to have a little faith in people"), Isaac returns a smile of encouragement—but it's obvious he doubts it and his heart is breaking. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Yale (Archie) has to choose between his wife Emily (Betty), who is reliable and would like to have children with him, and Mary (Veronica), his secret lover, who is self-contradictory: Mary tells him that she deserves better than a married man like him, but when he proposes to break up with Emily, she answers that she does not want him to divorce because of her. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The final shot is a reference to City Lights, except instead of a hopeful smile, it's a doubtful one. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Isaac, after his break-up with Tracy. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
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Nervous Wreck: Ike, in a way typical for Allen's protagonists. After he quits his job, he descends into an anxious worry about, among other things, the fact that his father won't be able to get a good seat at the synagogue. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: The Central Theme. All of the adults invent problems for themselves, while the 17 year old calls them out on their bullshit. | |
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Real-Person Cameo | |
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Real Person Cameo: Bella Abzug appears in the film at a real-life fundraiser. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
| Manhattan / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Jill comments that being raised by two mothers won't hurt Ike's son. Ike replies most people can't survive having one mother. Isaac also wrote a book about his mother called The Castrating Zionist. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
| Manhattan / int_beb932ca | comment |
Big Applesauce: See the title. The opening monologue—set to Rhapsody in Blue and synced with a montage of New York City at its most beautiful—is routinely quoted by anyone in love with the place. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Quite a lot, especially in the first conversation between Ike and Mary, where Mary references a slew of artists such as Heinrich Boll and F. Scott Fitzgerald. | |
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name | |
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: Ike tells Mary that "trouble is my middle name." | |
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Smoking Is Glamorous | |
| Manhattan / int_cd8aa3e8 | comment |
Smoking Is Glamorous: While out having dinner with Tracy, Yale and Emily, Isaac puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Filmed in glorious black and white, a rarity by 1979. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Subverted, as Tracy gets dumped by Ike, but gets over it, presumably becoming stronger and more mature. | |
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Reasoning with God | |
| Manhattan / int_d2ce1cbd | comment |
Reasoning with God: Invoked by Isaac in his cool and unusual compliment of Tracy's looks: | |
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Romantic Comedy | |
| Manhattan / int_e040c8f | comment |
Romantic Comedy: Of Allenish variety, with a bunch of free-spirited, neurotic intellectuals intermixing. | |
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The City | |
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The City: As the title shows. | |
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Letterbox | |
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Letterbox: Manhattan has never been seen in Pan and Scan, because Allen had it written in the contract that if shown on TV, the original aspect ratio must be used. Original TV airings had pink letterboxes due to technical reasons. | |
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Freud Was Right | |
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Freud Was Right: Played with. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: In a meta sense. Mia Farrow makes a cameo in the film, and for the next decade and a half, Farrow would replace Keaton in Allen's films. | |
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