Release Year: 1986 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 103 minutes Director: Woody Allen Producer: Robert Greenhut
synopsis
Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband Elliot (Michael Caine in an Oscar-winning performance). Elliot has fallen in love with Hannah's sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), who herself is feeling suffocated by her cynical, mean-spirited loner of a lover, played with great intensity by Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow. Meanwhile, third sister Holly (Oscar winnner Dianne Wiest) is struggling to find her own voice, working as a caterer while she tries to get her own acting career going. And in the middle of everything is Mickey (Woody Allen at his most neurotic), a television writer who is divorced from Hannah, has dated Holly, and, when he suspects he might have a brain tumor, decides to reevaluate his life and his faith in God.
cast
Barbara Hershey as Lee Carrie Fisher as April Dianne Wiest as Holly John Turturro as Writer Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Mary Mia Farrow as Hannah Michael Caine as Elliot Woody Allen as Mickey Sachs
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS is an intricate, well thought- out ensemble drama from Woody Allen, who began with this movie a string of adult dramas like CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, SEPTEMBER and ANOTHER WOMAN. This one follows the loves and ambitions of one extended family, all of whom are connected by a woman named Hannah (Mia Farrow). Michael Caine, her current husband (and probably the only man who looks goofier than Woody Allen), is infatuated with Hannah's sister Lee (Barbara "Collagen Lips" Hershey), who is married to a moody artist (Max von Sydow).
