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42-586: Another Woman may refer to: Another Woman (1988 film) Another Woman (2015 film) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Another Woman . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Another_Woman&oldid=1101513837 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

84-494: A 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties, held at The Langham , hosted by Hannah, and her husband, Elliot. Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the narrative; most of the events of the film connect to her. Elliot becomes infatuated with one of Hannah's sisters, Lee, and eventually begins an affair with her. Elliot attributes his behavior to his discontent with his wife's self-sufficiency and resentment of her emotional strength. Lee has lived for five years with

126-471: A 59% positive "Rotten" rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 27 reviews. Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph called the film "one of [Allen's] shortest, least funny, and very best films". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times similarly praised the film, awarding it a full four stars and writing, "Allen's film is not a remake of Wild Strawberries in any sense, but a meditation on

168-444: A French influenced by Flaubert, then translated into English by a lesser student of Constance Garnett." He added, "Mr. Allen is becoming an immensely sophisticated director, but this screenplay is in need of a merciless literary editor. It's full of an earnest teen-age writer's superfluous words, in addition to flashbacks and a dream sequence that contain material better dealt with in the film's contemporary narrative." Modern reception

210-484: A career. After borrowing money from Hannah, she starts a catering business with April, a friend and fellow actress. Holly and April end up as rivals in auditions for parts in Broadway musicals, as well as for the affections of an architect, David. Holly abandons the catering business after the romance with David fails and decides to try her hand at writing. The career change forces her once again to borrow money from Hannah,

252-470: A dependency that Holly resents. She writes a script inspired by Hannah and Elliot, which greatly upsets Hannah. It is suggested that much of the script involved personal details of Hannah and Elliot's marriage that had been conveyed to Holly through Lee (having been transmitted first from Elliot). Although this threatens to expose the affair between Elliot and Lee, Elliot soon disavows disclosing any such details. Holly sets aside her script, and instead writes

294-572: A disastrous date with Hannah's sister Holly, when they were set up after the divorce. A hypochondriac, he goes to his doctor complaining of hearing loss, and is frightened by the possibility that it might be a brain tumor. When tests prove that he is perfectly healthy, he is initially overjoyed, but then despairs that his life is meaningless. His existential crisis leads to unsatisfying experiments with religious conversion to Catholicism and an interest in Krishna Consciousness . Ultimately,

336-402: A family Thanksgiving dinner . Allen also stars in the film, along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters. Alongside them, the film features Carrie Fisher , Lloyd Nolan , Maureen O'Sullivan , Max von Sydow , Daniel Stern , John Turturro , Lewis Black (debut), and Julie Kavner . Hannah and Her Sisters was, for

378-439: A long time, Allen's biggest box office success, with a North American gross of US$ 40 million. The film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (for Allen), Best Supporting Actor (for Caine), and Best Supporting Actress (for Wiest). It is often considered one of Allen's major works, with critics continuing to praise its writing and ensemble cast. The story is told in three main arcs , with most of it occurring during

420-506: A reclusive artist, Frederick, who is much older. She finds her relationship with Frederick no longer intellectually or sexually stimulating, in spite of (or maybe because of) Frederick's professed interest in continuing to teach her. She leaves Frederick after admitting to having a dalliance with Elliot. For the remainder of the year between the first and second Thanksgiving gatherings, Elliot and Lee carry on their affair despite Elliot's inability to end his marriage to Hannah. Lee finally ends

462-916: A similar situation as Isak Borg: both characters reexamine their life after friends and family accuse them of being cold and unfeeling. The film has many of Allen's signature features, particularly the New York City setting; only a few scenes are shot outside the city, in the Hamptons . It also uses classical music ( Claude Debussy 's orchestral arrangement of Erik Satie 's Gymnopédie No. 1 , renamed Gymnopédie No. 3 ), and poetry ( Rainer Maria Rilke 's " Archaic Torso of Apollo ") to serve its narrative, as do earlier and later films such as Hannah and Her Sisters , Crimes and Misdemeanors , and Husbands and Wives . It focuses primarily on upper middle class intellectuals , as nearly all of Allen's 1980s films do. Another Woman received modest praise from critics and holds

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504-399: A story inspired by her own life, which Mickey reads and admires greatly, vowing to help her get it produced and leading to their second date. A minor arc in the film tells part of the story of Norma and Evan. They are the parents of Hannah and her two sisters, and still have acting careers of their own. Their own tumultuous marriage revolves around Norma's alcoholism and alleged affairs, but

546-472: A suicide attempt leads him to find meaning in his life after unexpectedly viewing the Marx Brothers ' Duck Soup in a movie theater. The revelation that life should be enjoyed, rather than understood, helps to prepare him for a second date with Holly, which this time blossoms into love. Holly's story is the film's third main arc. A former cocaine addict, she is an unsuccessful actress who cannot settle on

588-411: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Another Woman (1988 film) Modern film critics view Another Woman favorably. Marion Post is a New York philosophy professor over 50 on a leave of absence to write a new book. Due to construction work in her building, she sublets a furnished apartment downtown for peace and quiet. Her work there

630-497: Is interrupted by voices from a neighboring office in the building where a therapist conducts his analysis. She quickly realizes that she is privy to the despairing sessions of another woman, Hope, who is disturbed by a growing feeling that her life is false and empty. Her words strike a chord in Marion, who begins to question herself in the same way. Marion comes to realize that, like her father, she has been unfair, unkind and judgmental to

672-470: Is often more favorable. It was ranked 13th among Allen's works in a Time Out contributors' poll, with editor Dave Calhoun considering it "further proof that some of Woody’s finest films are those that drop the kvetching men to explore troubled women". It was 19th in Chris Nashawaty's list for Entertainment Weekly . The Daily Telegraph film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey named Another Woman

714-403: Is one of Woody Allen's finest films." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The film received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture . Allen received two Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Screenplay, Original and he earned a nomination for Best Director . His work on the film

756-527: Is pregnant. (in order of appearance) Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman 's Fanny and Alexander (1982). In both films, a large theatrical family gather for three successive years' celebrations (Thanksgiving in Allen's film, Christmas in Bergman's). The first of each gathering is in a time of contentment, the second in a time of trouble, and the third showing what happens after

798-665: The United States and Canada (including a re-release the following year), and remains one of the highest-grossing Woody Allen films. Adjusted for inflation it falls behind Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), and possibly also one or two of his early comedies. Midnight in Paris (2011) surpassed its box office as well. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 8.40/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Smart, tender, and funny in equal measure, Hannah and Her Sisters

840-471: The affair during the second Thanksgiving, explaining that she is finished waiting for him to commit and that she has started dating someone else. Hannah's ex-husband Mickey, a television writer, is present mostly in scenes outside of the primary story. Flashbacks reveal that his marriage to Hannah fell apart after they were unable to have children because of his infertility. However, they had twins who are not biologically his, before divorcing. He also went on

882-435: The character of Holly as "the kind of desperate, flailing Manhattanite that future director-writers would spin entire careers out of". Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for their portrayals of Elliot and Holly, respectively. Hannah and Her Sisters was the last film to win in both supporting acting categories until The Fighter in 2011. The film

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924-409: The director's fourth-greatest film, praising its "remarkably elegant hold on tone" and lauding Rowlands's performance as one of the finest in any film directed by Allen. Hannah and Her Sisters Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen . It tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with

966-400: The end of the film, she reflects that, for the first time in years, she feels hopeful. Another Woman borrows heavily from the films of Allen's idol Ingmar Bergman , particularly Wild Strawberries , whose main character is an elderly professor who learns from a close relative that his family hates him. Allen also recreates some of Wild Strawberries 's dream sequences, and puts Marion into

1008-471: The film a highly favorable review, going as far as to say that it "sets new standards for Mr. Allen as well as for all American movie makers". A poll of 100 film critics named Hannah and Her Sisters the best film of the year, after it appeared on 71 individual top ten lists. In 2005, the Writers Guild of America, West named Allen's script the 95th best film screenplay ever written. In October 2013,

1050-546: The film as "Henna and Her Sickos" which was written by Debbee Ovitz with art by Mort Drucker . In 2016, Olivia Wilde directed a live table reading of Hannah and Her Sisters at The New York Times ' small and packed-out Times Center theatre . The cast included, Wilde as Hannah, Rose Byrne as Lee, Uma Thurman as Holly, Michael Sheen as Elliott, Bobby Cannavale as Mickey, and Salman Rushdie as Frederick with Maya Rudolph , Jason Sudeikis and Justin Long filling out

1092-488: The film was voted by readers of The Guardian as the fourth best film directed by Woody Allen. In 2014, Calum Marsh of Slant Magazine named Hannah and Her Sisters as Allen's greatest film, praising its ensemble cast and Allen's "dense, heady script" for its "balancing act of conflicting desires and feelings". It was also listed as Allen's finest work in a joint article by The Daily Telegraph film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey, who compared its structure with

1134-515: The long-term bond between them is evident in Evan's flirtatious anecdotes about Norma while playing piano at the Thanksgiving gatherings. By the time of the film's third Thanksgiving, Lee has married a literature professor she met while taking random classes at Columbia University . Hannah and Elliot have reconciled their marriage. The film's final shot reveals that Holly is married to Mickey and that she

1176-553: The ordinary stuff of our lives and lifted it into art. We were honored and outraged. Farrow admitted "a small sick feeling ... deep inside me" which "I shared with nobody was my fear that Hannah and Her Sisters had openly and clearly spelled out his feelings for my sister. But this was fiction, I told myself ... So I put those thoughts out of my mind." The film premiered at the US Film Festival in Utah on January 25, 1986. The film

1218-488: The people closest to her: her unsuccessful brother Paul and his wife Lynn, who feel they embarrass her; her best friend from high school Claire, who feels eclipsed by her; her first husband Sam, who eventually committed suicide; and her stepdaughter Laura, who admires her but resents her high-handedness. She also realizes that her marriage to her second husband, Ken, is unfulfilling and that she missed her one chance at love with his best friend, Larry. She finally manages to meet

1260-487: The quality Al Pacino projected in The Godfather ". Farrow wrote, "It was the first time I criticized one of his scripts. To me, the characters seemed self-indulgent and dissolute in predictable ways. The script was wordy but it said nothing." She claims "Woody didn't disagree and tried to switch over to" an alternative idea, "but preproduction was already in progress, and we had to proceed". She later elaborated: It

1302-473: The relationship between three sisters and one story about someone else and his obsession with mortality." Allen admits the role of Hannah was based on Farrow being "a romanticized perception of Mia. She's very stable, she has eight children now, and she's able to run her career and have good relationships with her sister and her mother. I'm very impressed with those qualities, and I thought if she had two unstable sisters, it would be interesting." Allen says he

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1344-488: The resolution of the troubles. The sudden appearance of Mickey's reflection behind Holly's in the closing scene also parallels the apparition behind Alexander of the Bishop's ghost. Additional parallels can be found with Luchino Visconti 's 1960 film Rocco and His Brothers , which, besides the connection to its name, also uses the structural device of dividing sections of the film for the different siblings' plot arcs. The film

1386-456: The same theme: the story of a thoughtful person, thoughtfully discovering why she might have benefitted from being a little less thoughtful." Variety praised the film as "brave, in many ways fascinating, and in all respects of a caliber rarely seen." Vincent Canby of The New York Times was more critical of the film, remarking, "Everyone speaks slightly stilted, epistolary dialogue. The rounded sentences sound as if they'd been written in

1428-401: The subject of sisters for a long time. His earlier co-stars Janet Margolin and Diane Keaton both had two sisters each, and Farrow had three. She says Allen gave her an early copy of Hannah and Her Sisters saying she could play whatever sister she wanted, but that "he felt I should be Hannah, the more complex and enigmatic of the sisters ... whose stillness and internal strength he likened to

1470-476: The woman in therapy as she contemplates a Klimt painting called " Hope ". Although she wants to know more about the woman, she ends up talking more about herself, realizing that she made a mistake by having an abortion years ago and that at her age there are many things in life she will not have anymore. Marion leaves Ken after catching him in an affair. She resolves to change her life for the better, and takes steps to repair her relationship with Paul and Laura. By

1512-472: The works of Anton Chekhov and lauded it as "perhaps the most perfectly assured braiding of comedy and drama in mainstream American film. It feels like the miraculous sweet spot between all of its filmmaker's many modes and tones – biting without being cruel, profound without seeming sanctimonious, warmly humane without collapsing into goo." It was ranked third among Allen's films in a 2016 poll of Time Out contributors, with editor Joshua Rothkopf singling out

1554-711: Was also inspired by the title. "I thought I'd like to make a film called Hannah and Her Sisters ", he said, saying this prompted him to give Hannah two sisters. He was interested in making something about the relationship between sisters which he felt was more complex than that between brothers. "Maybe that comes from childhood; my mother had seven sisters and their children were female so all I knew were aunts and female cousins." Shooting began in October of 1984 in New York City, with Mia Farrow's real-life apartment being used. Mia Farrow later wrote that Allen had been intrigued about

1596-402: Was also nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Film Editing . Allen received the 1986 award for Best Director from the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures , Dianne Wiest won Best Supporting Actress , and the film was nominated for Best Film . In France, the film was nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Film . In 1986, Mad magazine satirized

1638-526: Was also recognized with two BAFTA Awards . Critics Siskel and Ebert each rated the film among the top three of the 1986 film year ; Roger Ebert 's 1986 review of the film called it "the best movie [Woody Allen] has ever made". Three years later when the two critics discussed their lists of the 10 best films of the 1980s, Ebert, who had included no comedies on his list, stated that had he been required to include one, it would have been Hannah And Her Sisters . Vincent Canby , of The New York Times , gave

1680-419: Was my mother's stunned, chill reaction to the script that enabled me to see how he had taken many of the personal circumstances and themes of our lives, and, it seemed, had distorted them into cartoonish characterizations. At the same time he was my partner. I loved him. I could trust him with my life. And he was a writer: this is what writers do. All grist for the mill. Relatives have always grumbled. He had taken

1722-507: Was originally about a man who fell in love with his wife's sister. Woody Allen then re-read the novel Anna Karenina "and I thought, it's interesting how this guy gets the various stories going, cutting from one story to another. I loved the idea of experimenting with that." He was particularly intrigued by the character of Nicholas Levin "who can't seem to find any meaning to life, he's terribly afraid of dying. It struck home very deeply. I thought it would be interesting to do one story about

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1764-441: Was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival . Hannah and Her Sisters opened on February 7, 1986, in 54 theaters, where it grossed $ 1,265,826 ($ 23,441 per screen) in its opening weekend, the first time an Allen film had debuted in theaters in cities other than New York City. When it expanded to 761 theaters on March 14, it garnered a respectable $ 2,707,966 ($ 3,809 per screen). It went on to gross $ 40,084,041 in

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