Manhattan

DVD - APPROX. 96 MINS. - 1979 - US Rating: R

Main feature:

Release Aug 5, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles French, Spanish
Studio MGM Home Entertainment
Year 1979
Genre Comedy, Drama

Special features:

  • (To be announced)

Synopsis:

"A masterpiece! [The] perfect blending of style and substance, humor and humanity." - TIME Magazine

Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1979, and considered "one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments" (Boxoffice), MANHATTAN is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's first film in that format), and accompanies by a magnificent George Gershwin score, Woody Allen's aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence" (TIME).

42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), whom he doesn't love, and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage... and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary, and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gateway to true love is a revolving door.

Cast and Crew:

MGM Home Entertainment presents
Michael MurphyMeryl Streep Woody AllenAnne ByrneMariel HemingwayDiane Keaton"Manhattan"
Written by Woody AllenWritten byMarshall Brickmanproduced byCharles H. Joffe
directed by Woody Allen
Production Year: 1979

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