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- 1977
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 33 m
- 1977
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Woody Allen portrays a neurotic, highly insecure and indecisive comedy writer who falls head over heels in love with a naive small-town girl who aspires to be a singer. The opening rounds of their relationship involve every romantic cliche. And despite having moved in together, his insecurities get the best of him as he interprets her ev...
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- 1977
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 33 m
- 1977
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 33 m
Annie Hall
7.2
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Summary Woody Allen portrays a neurotic, highly insecure and indecisive comedy writer who falls head over heels in love with a naive small-town girl who aspires to be a singer. The opening rounds of their relationship involve every romantic cliche. And despite having moved in together, his insecurities get the best of him as he interprets her ev...
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
92
95% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90. It's like drinking champagne.
There are moments when it seems Allen’s comic muse has temporarily deserted him - but it has been replaced by something much greater. Annie Hall touches the heart.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 256 User Ratings
7.2
77% Positive
196 Ratings
196 Ratings
9% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
15% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 256 User Ratings
7.2
77% Positive
196 Ratings
196 Ratings
9% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
15% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
Oct 20, 2024
"Annie Hall" is still one the greatest movies and the greatest romantic comedy of all time. Woody Allen pushed the boundaries making a tragic love story ahead of its time with a leading woman that **** pants and was her own person while showcasing Diane Keaton's incredible talent. Rest in peace in Diane Keaton, hope she's in the heaven singing "Seems Like Old Times."
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Jul 24, 2023
Funny and smart romantic comedy that touches relationships and existentialism
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In a decade largely devoted to male buddy-buddy films, brutal rape fantasies, and impersonal special effects extravaganzas, Woody Allen has almost single-handedly kept alive the idea of heterosexual romance in American films. Annie Hall is a touching and hilarious love story that is Allen’s most three-dimensional film to date.
By Joseph McBride FULL REVIEW
Allen joins the Catskills tummler’s anything-for-a-laugh antics with a Eurocentric art-house self-awareness and a psychoanalytic obsession with baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions. It’s a mark of Allen’s artistic intuition and confessional probity that he lets Diane Keaton’s epoch-defining performance run away with the movie and allows her character to run away from him.
In Annie Hall, Allen again writes, directs and stars with Diane Keaton in a remarkable recreation of a spent love affair, which is both sad and hysterically funny. A film which sticks close to the cutting edge of love, and darts about daringly trying to make philosophical sense of it, is bound to be flawed. This one is, because Allen tried to do in 93 minutes what Proust needed 11 volumes for: to resolve life, love and the passing of both.
By Tim Radford FULL REVIEW
The simplicity of the seemingly impromptu story, set largely in Allen's beloved New York City, is part of Annie Hall's undeniable charm, along with Allen's flashbacks to childhood (with side-splitting Jonathan Munk as a young Woody) and constant asides to the camera, a device that sometimes has to carry the laughs.
By Staff (Not Credited) FULL REVIEW
After slapstick farces as exuberant and hilarious as Sleeper and Love and Death, it comes as a soft, fuzzy, mildly diverting letdown.
Nov 11, 2022
One of Woody Allen's most outstanding works, from his glory days, where he shows off his obsessions: sex, death, psychology and Groucho Marx. It doesn't take great intelligence to savor it. Indispensable.
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Mar 22, 2022
Not everybody will love Woody Allen's humour, some will find him interesting and sharply insightful while others will find him self-indulgent. With me, it veers very largely towards the former with some occasions where the latter does creep in. Annie Hall is one of his best films, a masterpiece and one of the better Best Picture winners of the 70s with only the two Godfather films even better. The best assets are the script and the chemistry between the two leads. The script is enormously witty, with cracking dialogue that induces one and at times more laughs a minute, and full of insightful observations. People have deemed it one of the best screenplays of all time, and from personal perspective there is no reason to argue. The chemistry between the two leads, running somewhat on a parallel between the relationship of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton itself, and the actors in general actually is throughout very believable. It is often adorable and often dynamic. It helps that Diane Keaton gives one of her best and most endearing performances, and while Alvy is not a particularly likable or sympathetic character Woody Allen is similarly great, his looking into the camera and breaking the fourth wall moments were funny. The supporting cast all give spirited performances, especially Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane and Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum is memorable as well for one of the film's best and most quotable lines. The romance is sweet and relateable, the ending for me was really moving, but the story doesn't depend on that alone, Allen also muses over topics that were relevant then and that we can see as relevant today as well, he does so in a very thoughtful way. Allen directs with assurance, and while there have been more visually audacious Woody Allen films since Annie Hall it is still cleverly made with the way it's shot, the cartoon images and how we're shown visually what the characters are thinking. There is no music score and in this case that was a good idea, there was more leeway for the relationship between the two lead characters and observations to speak, and that's the same for the deliberate but never tedious pacing. Overall, an outstanding film, one of Allen's best and one of the greatest films of the 70s. People may dislike it for it winning Best Picture over Star Wars(this viewers and many others however think it fully deserved the win), as much as I'll have a fondness for the Star Wars original trilogy and consider it a milestone of its genre it is easy to see out of Star Wars and Annie Hall which is the superior film. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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Apr 10, 2023
A talky and sometimes sweet romantic comedy, way before its time. Most of the humor wasn't that great and is real specific. Great little last 5 minutes.
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Production Company
- Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
- Rollins-Joffe Productions
Release Date Apr 20, 1977
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG
Tagline A nervous romance.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations
