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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543189299
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 28710
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Two alternating stories about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
Amazon.com:
In Melinda and Melinda, Will Ferrell does a fine job playing Woody Allen--or at any rate, playing the fumbling, neurotic, lascivious character who appears in almost every Woody Allen movie (and is usually played by Allen himself). Hobie (Ferrell, Elf) is an unemployed actor who has fallen helplessly in love with Melinda (Radha Mitchell, High Art)--or at least with one version of Melinda, because Hobie's comic story runs parallel with a more serious version of the same plot, in which Melinda falls in love with a composer (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things). Melinda and Melinda is intended to be a sort of showdown between a comic and a tragic view of the world, but the comic story isn't all that funny and the tragic story isn't all that sad. You're more likely to feel annoyed by these characters than sympathetic to them, as they act more like Martians than New Yorkers; their responses and attitudes aren't exactly dated or implausible, they're mostly incomprehensible. The movie is still a step up from Anything Else, Allen's last effort; there are a handful of genuinely funny moments, Chloe Sevigny (as one of Melinda's best friends) and Mitchell are particularly good, and the turns of the two-fold plot--regardless of its genre--are engaging. However, these virtues will be best appreciated by those who are already Allen fans. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Looking for Woody
Woody Allen, in his long career as a comic, writer, actor, producer and director has worked many themes but the urban (usually New York City his home turf) slices of life are usually the best. Here Woody takes a tragic-comic, or is it comedic-tragic look at the trials and tribulations of an off-beat New York society girl Melinda as filtered through a comedy director's and a tragedy director's vision of the story line. Some amusing moments, especially for a hapless Woody wannabe character who falls ... Read More
Rating: - Solid
Woody Allen was a big star. Radha Mitchell will be a big star. The two- nebbishy New York intellectual and gorgeous blond Australian actress- are the two essential ingredients in Allen's latest film, Melinda And Melinda, which just opened in Texas last week. While not at the level of the greatest Allen films from his Golden Age of 1977-1992 it is a significant step above his last few meager outings, and hearkens back to some of those earlier classics. Like Broadway Danny Rose it is a film that is ... Read More
Rating:  - An Enjoyable Woody Allen Flick
Woody Allen is clearly held to higher standard than most film directors. Is this because he has benchmarked the film industry with classics such as Annie Hall and Manhattan? Perhaps it is due to his longevity in an unforgiving industry despite failures, both personal and professional? Is it because of his brilliance-- creating film in genres as diverse as Bananas and Match Point?
The expectation is that a woody Allen film should be better than most, and this one is. Its not his top dog, ... Read More
Rating: - Much better than what most say...
The film Melinda and Melinda is much better than it is credited on Amazon. It is an innovative film that features a great idea, to have two stories revolving around the same character discussed at a dinner table. One of the stories will be tragedy, one will be comedy. The acting is great, particularly Ferrell in one of his best roles, and the balance between the two stories is done well by Woody Allen. After watching Hollywood Ending, Scoop, Anything Else and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Melinda and ... Read More
Rating: - Melinda and Melinda - A Surprising Woody Allen Movie Without Woody Allen
Melinda and Melinda has elicited the full range of reactions from fans. On the one side, you have the Woody Allen purists that seem to believe that everything he creates is equally important and well made. On the other hand, you have the critics that will state that it's a *nice idea* but could have been done better. And yet the truth is somewhere in the middle. Because while this idea is not unique to Woody Allen, the way he blends the movie's themes with his own unique writing and film-making style ... Read More
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