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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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May 30, 2025 · via TMDB
“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 blank canvas of a woman who has no idea what she wants; whom she wants nor where she’s going and on whom “Elliot” is developing one hell of a crush. With all the ingredients of some intellectual slap-stick and a really quite striking cast, this manages to stay the right side of cringeworthy as it develops into an engagingly characterful and frequently quite witty maelstrom that borders, at times, on farce but that never quite takes that route. Caine is a good comedy actor and his laconic style works well as his relationships are put under a spotlight that extends to us questioning which, if any, of these folks could ever be lived with! Sure, there are certain identifiable threads that run through all of Allen’s works, and they are here too - but having assembled a cast that is able to deliver effortlessly and naturally like this allows this film to come across more distinctly than some of his other works. It’s also holding it’s value well. The story and it’s characters have lost little of their punch over the last forty years and this is proof positive that letting a story breathe can work wonders with a good cast. Now I have to go and watch “Jaws: The Revenge” which kept Caine away from the Oscars.
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Mia Farrow
Hannah
Barbara Hershey
Lee
Dianne Wiest
Holly
Woody Allen
Mickey Sachs
Michael Caine
Elliot
Lloyd Nolan
Evan
Maureen O'Sullivan
Norma
Carrie Fisher
April Knox
Julie Kavner
Gail
Max von Sydow
Frederick
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mary
Sam Waterston
David (uncredited)
Tony Roberts
Norman (uncredited)
J.T. Walsh
Ed Smythe
Daniel Stern
Dusty
John Turturro
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Christian Clemenson
Larry
Lewis Black
Paul
Richard Jenkins
Dr. Wilkes
Joanna Gleason
Carol
Fred Melamed
Dr. Grey
Maria Chiara
Manon Lescaut
Bobby Short
Self
Paul Bates
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Ken Costigan
Father Flynn
Verna O. Hobson
Mavis
Susan Gordon-Clark
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John Doumanian
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Daisy Previn
Hannah's Daughter
Moses Farrow
Hannah's Son
Fletcher Farrow Previn
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Ira Wheeler
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Soon-Yi Previn
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Carlo Di Palma
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Brian Hamill
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Jeffrey Kurland
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Woody Allen
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Thomas A. Reilly
First Assistant Director
Todd M. Thaler
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Juliet Taylor
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Ellen Lewis
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Charles H. Joffe
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Jack Rollins
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Lee Dichter
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