"Manhattan Murder Mystery Manhattan Murder Mystery is a 1993 American comedy murder mystery film directed by Woody Allen, co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and starring Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston and Alan Alda. The film centers on a married couple's investigation of the death of their neighbor's wife. The film began as an early draft of ""Annie Hall"", which Allen co-wrote with Brickman. Eventually, the script evolved and principal photography took place in 1992, in the titular city. It was released in August 1993 to positive reviews. Keaton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress –"
"Love and Death Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates. Allen considered it the funniest film he had made up until that point. When Napoleon (James Tolkan) invades Austria during the Napoleonic Wars, Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian army. Desperate and disappointed after hearing the news that Sonja (Diane Keaton), his cousin twice removed, is to wed"
"Manhattan (film) Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star. ""Manhattan"" was filmed in black-and-white and 2.35:1 widescreen. The film features music composed by George Gershwin, including ""Rhapsody in Blue"", which inspired the idea behind the film. Allen described the film as a combination of his"
"the names of some cast members were withheld entirely; performances were not recorded. ""Manhattan"" inspired the song ""Remember Manhattan"" written by Richard Marx and Fee Waybill from Marx's debut album. Manhattan (film) Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star. ""Manhattan"" was filmed in black-and-white and"
"Cavett Show"", Allen repeated his comments and said he had been sued for ""$1 million."" Allen married Louise Lasser in 1966. They divorced in 1970. Lasser appeared in three Allen films shortly before and after the divorce—""Take the Money and Run"", ""Bananas"", and ""Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)""—and later briefly appeared in ""Stardust Memories"". In 1969 Allen cast Diane Keaton in his Broadway show, ""Play It Again, Sam."" During the run she and Allen became romantically involved. Although they broke up after a year, she continued to star in his films, including"
"""A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"" (1982) was the first movie Allen made starring Mia Farrow, who stepped into Diane Keaton's role when Keaton was shooting ""Reds"". He next produced a vividly idiosyncratic tragi-comical parody of documentary, ""Zelig"", in which he starred as a Leonard Zelig, man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him. Allen has combined tragic and comic elements in such films as ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" (1986) and ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" (1989), in which he tells two stories that connect at the end. He also made three films about"
"""Hall"" is her original surname). Many of Keaton's mannerisms and her self-deprecating sense of humor were added into the role by Allen. (Director Nancy Meyers has claimed ""Diane's the most self-deprecating person alive."") Keaton has also said that Allen wrote the character as an ""idealized version"" of herself. The two starred as a frequently on-again, off-again couple living in New York City. Her acting was later summed up by CNN as ""awkward, self-deprecating, speaking in endearing little whirlwinds of semi-logic"", and by Allen as a ""nervous breakdown in slow motion."" The film was both a major financial and critical success,"
"entertainment industry personalities, starting with her time with the Broadway production of ""Play It Again, Sam"" when she auditioned for director Woody Allen. Their association became personal following a dinner after a late-night rehearsal. It was her sense of humor that attracted Allen. They briefly lived together during the Broadway production, but by the time of the film release of the same name in 1972, their living arrangements became informal. They worked together on eight films between 1971 and 1993, and Keaton has said that Allen remains one of her closest friends. She was already dating Warren Beatty from 1979"
"magnanimous comic perception of human vanity and foolhardiness."" In his review for ""Newsweek"" magazine, Jack Kroll wrote: ""Allen's growth in every department is lovely to behold. He gets excellent performances from his cast. The increasing visual beauty of his films is part of their grace and sweetness, their balance between Allen's yearning romanticism and his tough eye for the fatuous and sentimental – a balance also expressed in his best screen play [""sic""] yet."" In his review for the ""Chicago Sun-Times"", Roger Ebert, who gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, ""Diane Keaton gives us a fresh and"
"Keaton subsequently expanded her range, to avoid becoming typecast as her ""Annie Hall"" persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"" (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for ""Reds"" (1981), ""Marvin's Room"" (1996) and ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003). Some of her popular later films include ""Baby Boom"" (1987), ""Father of the Bride"" (1991), ""Father of the Bride Part II"" (1995), ""The First Wives Club"" (1996), ""The Other Sister"" (2001), and ""The Family Stone"" (2005). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a"
"A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 sex comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. The plot is loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's ""Smiles of a Summer Night"". It was the first of 13 movies that Allen would make starring Mia Farrow. Her role was originally written for Diane Keaton, another Allen lead actress, but she was busy promoting her film ""Reds"" and preparing to begin production on ""Shoot the Moon"". Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, Tony Roberts and Jose Ferrer co-starred. It also marks the first appearance of Allen as an ensemble"
"have a great deal of passion and hope—why shouldn't they fall in love? Why shouldn't movies show that?"" Keaton played a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with her daughter's much older boyfriend. The film was a major success at the box office, grossing US$125million in North America. Roger Ebert wrote that ""Nicholson and Keaton bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for."" The following year, Keaton received her fourth Academy Award nomination for her role in the film. Keaton's only film between the"
"Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Gere, and Tom Berenger. The film received mixed reviews, but was a success at the box office, earning $22.5 million (the equivalent of $86.9 million in 2016). It received two Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Tuesday Weld) and Best Cinematography (by William A. Fraker). Rossner herself ""detested"" the film, but did praise the performance of Diane Keaton. In 2012, the novel was adapted as ""Goodbar"", a ""staged concept album"" by the band Bambi and the performing arts group Waterwell. It was presented at The Public Theater in New York as part of"
"works, and felt more excessive. It currently has a 22% ""Rotten"" rating on the criticism aggregation site, Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 5.7 on the Internet Movie Database. Despite the negative reception, the film was a commercial success. Produced on a budget of $4.8 million, the film grossed $21 million at the box office, earning $9.9 million US theatrical rentals. It was the 25th highest grossing film of 1977. The World's Greatest Lover The World's Greatest Lover is a 1977 American comedy film directed, written by and starring Gene Wilder, and co-starring Carol Kane. It is a tribute/spoof of"
"a writer and director, with the ensemble dramedy, ""The Four Seasons"" being perhaps his most notable hit. ""Betsy's Wedding"" is his last directing credit to date. After ""M*A*S*H"", Alda took on a series of roles that either parodied or directly contradicted his ""nice guy"" image. In 1993, he co-starred with Woody Allen (also the director), Diane Keaton, and Anjelica Huston in the comedy/mystery ""Manhattan Murder Mystery"". The four play a quartet of amateur crime solvers who become entangled in a murder plot possibly perpetrated by Keaton and Allen's neighbor. Alda's character is Ted, a playwright secretly in love with Keaton's"
"in American cinema history. In 2000, they named it second greatest romantic comedy in American cinema. Keaton's performance of ""Seems Like Old Times"" was ranked 90th on their list of greatest songs included in a film, and her line ""La-dee-da, la-dee-da."" was named the 55th greatest movie quote. The screenplay was named the sixth greatest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, West while IGN named it the seventh greatest comedy film of all time. In 2000, readers of ""Total Film"" magazine voted it the forty-second greatest comedy film of all time, and the seventh greatest romantic comedy film of"
"today"" stereotyped into two categories - the sweet caregiver or the self-reliant businesswoman - and aims to destroy that outdated mindset. It earned a respectable USD$1,608,924 in its opening weekend in the U.S. and earned approximately $26,712,476 in its entire run. The film debuted strongly on VHS. Baby Boom (film) Baby Boom is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by Charles Shyer, written by Nancy Meyers and Shyer, and produced by Meyers and Bruce A. Block for United Artists. It stars Diane Keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died, leaving her a six-month-old baby girl"
"mysterious, schizophrenic mother of a teenager in boarding school in ""On My Own"" (1993), the lifelong Australian Communist Party member reacting to the downfall of the Soviet Union in ""Children of the Revolution"" (1996), two more Allen films, ""Deconstructing Harry"" (1997) and ""Celebrity"" (1998) and a highly-strung White House chief of staff in ""Absolute Power"" (1997). After appearing in ""Celebrity"", ""The Guardian"" newspaper wrote that Davis ""in recent years has succeeded Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow as Allen's misfit muse."" Much of her work in the late nineties had been on television, where she has a collection of Emmy Award"
"beautiful, selfish, funny and driven. It's the best work she has done to date."" In addition, Roger Ebert felt Keaton was ""a particular surprise. I had somehow gotten into the habit of expecting her to be a touchy New Yorker, sweet, scared, and intellectual. Here, she is just what she needs to be: plucky, healthy, exasperated, loyal, and funny."" Keaton received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance. The following year, Keaton starred in the domestic drama ""Shoot the Moon"" opposite Albert Finney. The film follows George (Finney) and Faith Dunlap (Keaton), whose deteriorating marriage, separation and love affairs"
"Baby Boom (film) Baby Boom is a 1987 romantic comedy film directed by Charles Shyer, written by Nancy Meyers and Shyer, and produced by Meyers and Bruce A. Block for United Artists. It stars Diane Keaton as a yuppie who discovers that a long-lost cousin has died, leaving her a six-month-old baby girl as inheritance. The film received generally favorable reviews and was a modest box-office success during its original run, eventually grossing $26 million. The film launched a subsequent television show, running from 1988 to 1989, and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. J. C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton)"
"film ""fresh"", with a 100% rating. At the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975, the film won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars: Miss Keaton is very good in ""Love and Death"", perhaps because here she gets to establish and develop a character, instead of just providing a foil, as she's often done in other Allen films ... There are dozens of little moments when their looks have to be exactly right, and they almost always are. There are shadings of comic meaning that could have gotten lost"
"for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, ""A Hard Day's Night"", on George Martin's 1998 album, ""In My Life"". She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical ""Everyone Says I Love You"" (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy ""The Out-of-Towners"" (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office. In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from ""The First Wives Club"", Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal"
"interested in is these lobbies, and these strange ballrooms in these old hotels.' So I began shooting them"", she recalled in 2003. ""These places were deserted, and I could just sneak in anytime and nobody cared. It was so easy and I could do it myself. It was an adventure for me."" ""Reservations"", her collection of photos of hotel interiors, was published in book form in 1980. In ""Manhattan"" in 1979, Keaton and Woody Allen ended their long working relationship; the film would be their last major collaboration until 1993. In 1978, she became romantically involved with Warren Beatty, and"
"that changes were made to the film in what was ""definitely a reaction"" to Allen's relationship problems, including the casting of Anjelica Huston as ""a much younger first time novelist"" with whom Allen's character became romantically involved (Huston was 41 during production). In the fall of 1992, Allen called Diane Keaton and asked her to fill in for Farrow, and she immediately accepted. When asked if he had re-written the script to fit Keaton's talents, Allen said, ""No, I couldn't do that. In a regular script I would have done that upon hiring Diane Keaton. But I couldn't [here] because"
"again centered on her character's unimportance in the film. ""The Washington Post"" wrote: ""Even though she is authoritative in the role, Keaton suffers tremendously from having no real function except to nag Michael for his past sins."" In 1993, Keaton starred in ""Manhattan Murder Mystery"", her first major film role in a Woody Allen film since 1979, having made a cameo in 1987's ""Radio Days"". Her part was originally intended for Mia Farrow, but Farrow dropped out of the project after her split with Allen. Todd McCarthy of ""Variety"" commended her performance, writing that she ""nicely handles her sometimes buffoonish"
"A later ""Guardian"" critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that ""this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making"". John Marriott of the ""Radio Times"" believed that ""Annie Hall"" was the film where Allen ""found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection"", referring to the ""comic delight"" derived from the ""spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic"". ""Empire"" magazine rated the movie five"
"New York Times"". ""The situation of a woman getting left for a younger version of herself was far too common. But we didn't want a movie about women as victims. We wanted a movie about empowerment."" Rudin consulted Robert Harling to write the screenplay, whose script was reworked by Paul Rudnick when Harling left to direct 1996's ""The Evening Star"", the sequel to the 1983 drama ""Terms of Endearment"". Rudnick, however, felt the final script was ""incomprehensible"": ""To figure out the structure of that movie would require an undiscovered Rosetta Stone,"" he told ""The New York Times"". Diane Keaton was"
"The World's Greatest Lover The World's Greatest Lover is a 1977 American comedy film directed, written by and starring Gene Wilder, and co-starring Carol Kane. It is a tribute/spoof of classic silent comedies and ""old Hollywood"" of the 1920s, specifically the popularity of romantic icon Rudolph Valentino. In the silent film era, Rainbow Studios executives figure they are losing revenue to a rival studio because they don't have Rudolph Valentino. Led by studio head Adolph Zitz, they decide to hold a contest for the World's Greatest Lover in order to find a star to combat Valentino's popularity. Rudy Hickman is"
"the veteran TV host of a fictional morning talk show that desperately needs to boost its lagging ratings. Portraying a narcissistic character who would do anything to please the audience, Keaton described her role as ""the kind of woman you love to hate."" Inspired by Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway play ""The Sunshine Boys"", the film became a moderate success at the box office for a worldwide total of almost US$59million. Though some critics found that Keaton was underused in the film, the actress was generally praised for her performance, with James Berardinelli of ""ReelViews"" noting that ""Diane Keaton is so"
"Allen won for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay alongside Brickman. The film received only one Golden Globe Award, for Best Film Actress in a Musical or Comedy (Diane Keaton), despite nominations for three other awards: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director, and Best Film Actor in a Musical or Comedy (Woody Allen). In 1992, the United States' Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry that includes ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" films. The film is often mentioned among the greatest comedies of all time. The American Film Institute lists it 31st"
"work"" and ""side-splitting."" Charles Champlin of the ""Los Angeles Times"" declared, ""Thin but likable just about sums it up."" Gary Arnold of ""The Washington Post"" found the film ""funny with remarkable and delightful consistency."" Penelope Gilliatt of ""The New Yorker"" thought that Woody Allen and Diane Keaton ""have become an unbeatable new team at pacing haywire intellectual backchat. Their style works as if each of them were a less mock-assertive Groucho Marx with a duplicate of him to play against. For such a recklessly funny film, the impression is weirdly serene."" Geoff Brown of ""The Monthly Film Bulletin"" wrote that"
"for Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen. His film ""Manhattan Murder Mystery"" (1993) combined suspense with dark comedy and marked the return of Diane Keaton, Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston. He returned to lighter movies like ""Bullets over Broadway"" (1994), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, followed by a musical, ""Everyone Says I Love You"" (1996). The singing and dancing scenes in ""Everyone Says I Love You"" are similar to musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The comedy ""Mighty Aphrodite"" (1995), in which Greek drama plays a large role, won an Academy Award for"
"""No se tú"", taking advantage of the 1992 hit by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, included in the soundtrack of the film. The soundtrack included ""2 Sides"", a track also present on James Armstrong's 2000 album, ""Got It Goin' On"". Speechless (1994 film) Speechless is a 1994 American romantic comedy film directed by Ron Underwood. It stars Michael Keaton, Geena Davis (who also co-produced with her then-husband, director Renny Harlin), Bonnie Bedelia, Ernie Hudson, and Christopher Reeve. Julia Mann (Davis) and Kevin Vallick (Keaton) are insomniac writers who fall in love, but their romance is thrown for a loop because both"