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Plot

Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin. Over the weekend, another couple converges at Andrew's summer home -- the sly, lady-killer of a doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his date, the deliciously ditzy nurse Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Through the course of the weekend, sexual partners are exchanged and magical fairy tale moments are shared.
MPAA Rating:
PG
Genre(s):
Comedy
Run Time:
88min.
Theatrical Release Date:
11/20/2006
DVD Release Date:
11/06/2001
Director(s):
Woody Allen
Starring:
Woody Allen , Mia Farrow , José Ferrer , Julie Hagerty , Tony Roberts
Themes:
Romantic Betrayal,Infidelity,Age Disparity Romance
Tone:
Easygoing,Fanciful,Humorous,Light,Lyrical,Sexy,Talky,Whimsical
Keywords:
Summer,countryside,couple,death,extramarital-affair,farmhouse,friendship,frustration,love-triangle,misunderstanding,morals,professor,relationship,repression,romance,rurality,sex,weekend
Language:
English