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Anything Else - 2003

La vie et tout le reste
Tagline: In any relationship, one person always does the heavy lifting
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 108 minutes

Film Remarks:

Jason Biggs (American Wedding) plays Jerry Faulk, a struggling comedy writer in Manhattan who supplies jokes to marginally talented standup acts. Amanda (Christina Ricci), Jerry's girlfriend is completely impossible to be with. An aspiring actress and singer, who is obsessed with smoking, her weight, and taking pills, she totally shuts-down anytime Faulk tries to get physical with her. His confidante and occasional writing partner (Woody Allen) is a paranoid university professor. As the movie progresses, his character's odd behaviour appears more and more.

Amanda's also has an equally impossible mother, played by Stockard Channing. She moves herself into their already cramped apartment. Woody Allen's character suggests he and Jerry move to Los Angeles to take a job writing for a sitcom, but things come to a head.

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Main Cast:

• Jason Biggs .... Jerry Falk
• Christina Ricci .... Amanda
• Woody Allen .... David Dobel
• Danny DeVito .... Harvey
• Stockard Channing .... Paula
• Fisher Stevens .... Manager
• David Conrad .... Dr. Reed
• Jimmy Fallon .... Bob
• Kadee Strickland .... Brooke
• Adrian Grenier .... Ray Polito

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Editorial:

Christina Ricci invigorates an even-more-neurotic-than-usual variation on the classic neurotic woman in this Woody Allen movie. Comedy writer Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs from American Pie) is madly in love with Amanda (Ricci from The Opposite of Sex), even though they haven't had sex in six months. Falk meets an older writer named Dobel (Allen) who becomes a sort of accidental mentor, encouraging him to break free of Amanda and his clinging agent (Danny DeVito).

The pace is sluggish, almost every scene feels like an outtake from an earlier, better Woody Allen movie (particularly Annie Hall), Biggs never seems comfortable with his dialogue--only Ricci makes her character her own, giving her own perverse comic spin to the proceedings. About three-fourths of the way through the movie, the story starts to feel fresher and more compelling, but by then it's too late.

Also featuring Jimmy Fallon and Stockard Channing.

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Additional:

Budget: $18m (USA)
Gross: $3.2m (USA)
Release Date: August 27, 2003 (Venice Film Festival), Sept 19, 2003 (USA), October 3, 2003 (Italy), October 29, 2003 (France), December 5, 2003 (Spain), January 7, 2004 (Belgium)