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A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
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Nov 27, 2024 · via TMDB
This is one of those internecine familial dramas that at times is really quite preposterous, but is also quite observationally funny. First, there's "Joe" (Woody Allen) who used to be married to "Steffi" (Goldie Hawn) who is now married to "Bob" (Alan Alda). She has two daughters by her second marriage and he one son by his first - a entertainingly died-in-the-wool republican in this nest of liberalism! Then there's "Holden" (Edward Norton) and "Skylar" (Drew Barrymore) madly in love, but unable to afford a $50,000 wedding ring and pretty useless when it comes to anything romantic. Meantime, "Joe" is living in Paris and reeling from his latest emotional setback with a considerably younger woman, so he comes to visit his other family only to bump into the married "Von" (Julia Roberts) whilst she is out jogging, and... As the threads start to knit quite amiably here, we are introduced to the star of the film - for me, anyway - and that's Tim Roth as the obviously lecherous ex-con "Ferry". He is invited by the kindly "Bob" for a rehabilitative dinner only to fall for "Skylar" and offer her a life that's maybe less staid than that offered by the unimaginative "Holden". It's all pieced together using some musical numbers that gives just about everyone to sing and for Norton to show us he can master a dance step or two, too. The writing has a certain potency to it, and though there is a certain distastefulness about the relationship between "Joe" and just about all of the (always younger) women in his life, that starts to morph into something rather pitiable as his character strives constantly for the happiness, or a least contentedness, he sees around him. Allen is largely just the same old, same old here but Hawn can certainly hold a tune together and is in her element here, as is an on-form Alda and a Barrymore who works well as a foil to the increasingly daft antics of her criminal buddy who thinks nothing of embroiling her in his smash and grab activities. It's short and sweet with plenty of characters to like, loathe and laugh at and I did quite enjoy it.
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Joe Berlin
Natasha Lyonne
Djuna 'D.J.' Berlin
Goldie Hawn
Steffi Dandridge
Alan Alda
Bob Dandridge
Drew Barrymore
Skylar Dandridge
Edward Norton
Holden Spence
Julia Roberts
Von Sidell
Lukas Haas
Scott Dandridge
Gaby Hoffmann
Lane Dandridge
Natalie Portman
Laura Dandridge
Tim Roth
Charles Ferry
David Ogden Stiers
Holden's Parent
Billy Crudup
Ken
Robert Knepper
Greg
Patrick Cranshaw
Grandpa
Itzhak Perlman
Self
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Cop
Edward Hibbert
Harry Winston Salesman
Susan Misner
Harry Winston Dancer
Frederick Rolf
Le Cirque Waiter
Timothy Jerome
X-Ray Room Doctor
Ruth Gottschall
Hospital Dancer
Monica McSwain
Hospital Dancer
Jill Nicklaus
Hospital Dancer
Myra Lucretia Taylor
Hospital Dancer
Paolo Seganti
DJ's Venice Date
Tony Sirico
Escaped Convict
Ray Garvey
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Christy Carlson Romano
Trick-or-Treat Child
Gabriel Millman
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Darren Lee
Groucho Party Dancer
Cynthia Onrubia
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Nancy Ticotin
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Emily Bindiger
Helen Miles Singer
Waltrudis Buck
Psychiatrist
Dana Moore
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Andrea Piedimonte Bodini
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Don Correia
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Chris Cardona
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Production Design
Carlo Di Palma
Director of Photography
Eric Mendelsohn
Costume Assistant
Jeffrey Kurland
Costume Design
Bill Anagnos
Stunt Coordinator
Roy Farfel
Stunt Coordinator
Woody Allen
Director
Juliet Taylor
Casting
Patricia Kerrigan DiCerto
Casting Associate
Charles H. Joffe
Co-Executive Producer
Jack Rollins
Co-Executive Producer
Letty Aronson
Co-Executive Producer
J.E. Beaucaire
Executive Producer
Robert Greenhut
Producer
Dick Hyman
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Dick Hyman
Music Arranger
Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Arlene Martel
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Randall Balsmeyer
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Woody Allen
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Holy Matrimony
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
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