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13/09/1995 Comedy, Romance 1h 35m
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Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!

Overview

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.

  1. Woody Allen

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Woody Allen

    Lenny

  2. Mira Sorvino

    Linda Ash

  3. Helena Bonham Carter

    Amanda

  4. F. Murray Abraham

    Chorleiter

  5. Donald Symington

    Amanda's Father

  6. Claire Bloom

    Amanda's Mother

  7. Olympia Dukakis

    Jocasta

  8. Michael Rapaport

    Kevin

  9. David Ogden Stiers

    Laius

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-11-28
To minimise the inconvenience to their daily lives, a married couple adopt a baby from birth, but by the time he is five the fizz has rather gone out of their marriage. He's a sports journalist and is a bit bored with her (Helena Bonham Carter) more "arty" friends whom she knows from her all-consuming work in her gallery. When their adopted son "Max" starts to show signs that ne might just be some sort of a prodigy, dad "Lenny" (Woody Allen) decides that he wants to try to track down the birth mother. Imagine his disappointment when he discovers that it's "Linda" (Mira Sorvino). She's an expen...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$26,000,000.00

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