Annie Hall

UPC: 883904256427

Studio: Fox Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor]

Summary: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, n?e Diane Hall). The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different. Along the rocky road of their coupling, Allen/Alvy weigh in on such topics as endless therapy, movies vs. TV, the absurdity of dating rituals, anti-Semitism, drugs, and, in one of the best set pieces, repressed Midwestern WASP insanity vs. crazy Brooklyn Jewish boisterousness. Annie wants to move to Los Angeles to find that fame that finally does in the relationship -- but not before Alvy gets in a few digs at vacuous, mantra-fixated California. Originally entitled Anhedonia (the inability to enjoy oneself), Annie Hall blended the slapstick and fantasy from such earlier Allen films as Sleeper (1973) and Bananas (1971) with the more autobiographical musings of his stand-up and written comedy, using an array of such movie techniques as talking heads, splitscreens, and subtitles. Within these gleeful formal experiments and sight gags, Allen and co-writer Marshall Brickman skewered 1970s solipsism, reversing the happy marriage of opposites found in classic screwball comedies. Hailed as Allen's most mature and personal film, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture and also won Oscars for Allen as director and writer and for Keaton as Best Actress; audiences enthusiastically responded to Allen's take on contemporary love and turned Keaton's rumpled menswear into a fashion trend. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts U.S. National Film Registry – Library of Congress 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress – National Board of Review Best Picture – New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress – New York Film Critics Circle Best Director – New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay – New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay – New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Actress – National Society of Film Critics

Annie Hall

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 01/24/2012

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DHMA null, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 93 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Rebecca Flint Marx

One of the greatest pleasures of Woody Allen's early work is his ability to skewer himself while skewering the conventions of the comedy genre. Annie Hall is perhaps the best example of this: a blend of slapstick, fantasy, and bittersweet romantic comedy, it is not so much about two people falling in love as about two brains trying to negotiate a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship. The neurotic, self-obsessed commentary on display in Annie Hall is pointed but relatively gentle, free of the bitterness that sometimes marked Allen's later work. The film is a series of insightful musings that leave the viewer feeling strangely optimistic--or at least very amused--about human nature. Much of this is due to Alvy and Annie themselves--unlike the oddly but perfectly matched couples fated to walk off into the sunset in the majority of romantic comedies, Alvy and Annie are consigned to further introspection, obsessive analysis, and bittersweet reflection. Part of the appeal of Annie Hall is that there are no pat answers: in watching the struggles of the characters, we see a reflection of our own struggles, without the condescending message that everything will be fine in the end. Annie Hall elevated Allen to the forefront of contemporary filmmakers, promoting him from a comedian who happened to make films to a comic filmmaker. The film also set a new standard for romantic comedies, its name alone becoming synonymous with the sub-genre of the intelligent, New York-based romantic comedy. On a less far-reaching scale, it also launched a fashion trend, with Diane Keaton's baggy menswear providing a welcome alternative to polyester pantsuits and flared trousers, anticipating the craze for androgynous clothing by almost twenty years. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Gary Allen  Actor 
Stanley de Santis  Actor 
Shelley Hack  Actor 
Helen Ludlam  Actor 
Vince O'Brien  Actor 
Paula Trueman  Actor 
Beverly D'Angelo  Actor 
John Glover  Actor 
Alan Landers  Actor 
Mark Lenard  Actor 
Roger Newman  Actor 
Bernie Styles  Actor 
Walter Bernstein  Actor 
Jim McKrell  Actor 
Michael Aronin  Actor 
John Doumanian  Actor 
Russell Horton  Actor 
Lou Picetti  Actor 
Michael Karm  Actor 
Mary Boylan  Actor 
Lucy Lee Flippin  Actor 
Christine Jones  Actor 
Sigourney Weaver  Actor 
Gary Mule Deer  Actor 
Laurie Bird  Actor 
John Dennis Johnston  Actor 
James MacKrell  Actor 
Rick Petrucelli  Actor 
William Callaway  Actor 
Hy Ansel  Actor 
Johnny Haymer  Actor 
Charles Levin  Actor 
Rashel Novikoff  Actor 
Arthur Haggerty  Actor 
Dick Cavett  Actor 
Chris Gampel  Actor 
Bob Maroff  Actor 
Veronica Radburn  Actor 
Tracey Walter  Actor 
Loretta Tupper  Actor 
Humphrey Davis  Actor 
Jeff Goldblum  Actor 
Albert M. Ottenheimer  Actor 
Woody Allen  Director 
Woody Allen  Screenwriter 
Marshall Brickman  Screenwriter 
Robert Greenhut  Executive Producer 
Charles H. Joffe  Producer 
Jack Rollins  Producer 
John Jacob Loeb  Composer (Music Score) 
Woody Allen  Actor 
Diane Keaton  Actor 
Tony Roberts  Actor 
Carol Kane  Actor 
Paul Simon  Actor 
Colleen Dewhurst  Actor 
Janet Margolin  Actor 
Shelley Duvall  Actor 
Christopher Walken  Actor 
Donald Symington  Actor 
Mordecai Lawner  Actor 
Joan Newman  Actor 
Jonathan Munk  Actor 
Ruth Volner  Actor 
Martin Rosenblatt  Actor 

Country: USA