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Manhattan Murder Mystery - 1993

   Meurtre mystérieux à Manhattan

Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 104 minutes

Film Remarks:

Larry (Woody Allen) and his wife Carol (Diane Keaton) are a married couple who, after twenty plus years, have settled into a rather mundane routine. She reluctantly goes to hockey games with him, he in turn grudgingly joins her at the opera. It's always business as usual with little spark, until an elderly neighbor in their apartment building is found dead of an apparent heart attack. Carol becomes suspicious when the woman's husband (Jerry Adler) acts a bit too nonchalant, and begins to uncover clues which she believes point to foul play. Larry is convince Carol is imagining things, causing her to turn to a recently divorced friend, Ted (Alan Alda), for comfort. Larry, meanwhile, is flattered by the attentions of a writer (Anjelica Huston), and frustrated by Carol's insistence that she crack the case.

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Main Cast:

• Woody Allen .... Larry Lipton
• Diane Keaton .... Carol Lipton
• Jerry Adler .... Paul House
• Lynn Cohen .... Lillian House
• Ron Rifkin .... Sy
• Joy Behar .... Marilyn
• William Addy .... Jack, the Super
• John Doumanian .... Neighbor
• Sylvia Kauders .... Neighbor
• Ira Wheeler .... EMS Doctor
• Alan Alda .... Ted
• Anjelica Huston .... Marcia Fox
• Melanie Norris .... Helen Moss
• Marge Redmond .... Mrs. Dalton
• Zach Braff .... Nick Lipton

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Editorial:

Woody Allen was going through his off-screen scandal with Mia Farrow when Manhattan Murder Mystery was produced, so Diane Keaton was brought in to fill the role intended for Farrow. The reunion of Keaton and Allen only improves this already enjoyable Allen comedy, since they're so comfortable with each other's neuroses that they're delightfully convincing as a married couple who suspect their neighbor of murdering his wife. Actually, it's Keaton who obsesses about the possible foul play; Woody just wants them to mind their own business. But pretty soon they've recruited their friends (Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston) as amateur sleuths, and the movie turns into a Nancy Drew mystery for sophisticated Manhattanites. With a typical abundance of Woody Allen witticism and some memorable comic suspense, this engaging throwback to vintage Hollywood mysteries is guaranteed to please even the most noncommittal Woody Allen fans, and the Allen-Keaton chemistry is, as always, a genuine pleasure.

--Jeff Shannon of Amazon.com

Movie Trivia & Awards:
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Additional:

Budget: $13.5m (USA)
Gross: $11.285m (USA), SEK 2,233,769 (Sweeden), ESP 360,191,068 (Spain)
Production Dates: 1992
Release Date: August 13, 1993 (USA), October 13, 1993 (France), September 10, 1993 (Sweeden), February 18, 1994 (Finland), April 15, 1994 (Spain)