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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
USA
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Year
1977
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Genre
Comedy
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Annie Hall: A Nervous Romance Alternative
Introduction
“One of the funniest pictures made in America since World War Two. Groucho Marx, who died on the first day of the year, and Charlie Chaplin, who passed away on one of the last, would both have been proud to sign such a film.”
Peter Cowie, Annie Hall, BFI Film Classics, 1996
After a decade of directing and/or writing overtly comedic films, Woody Allen’s fortieth birthday heralded a dramatic gear-change. While Annie Hall offers at least as many laughs as its predecessors, they’re now drawn from the autobiographical roots of Allen’s own anxieties about life and relationships: Diane Keaton, who plays the title character, was once his real-life girlfriend.
The film was originally called Anhedonia – a condition that inhibits the inability to experience pleasure – and that’s Allen’s alter ego Alvy Singer’s problem. Brought up beneath the Coney Island rollercoaster (allegedly, but it’s an eye-catching image), he treats life as though it was a similarly perilous brake-free journey.
Casual asides are deconstructed for latent anti-Semitism, strangers are asked for relationship advice (“We use a large vibrating egg”, recommends an elderly passer-by), lovers are reconciled over a spider in the bathtub panic, and the theorist Marshall McLuhan is spontaneously produced to settle an argument with an annoying pedant.
Annie Hall has inspired countless romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally (1989), L.A. Story (1991) and Chasing Amy (1997). Allen’s own Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) revived an early concept for the film.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Alvy Singer
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Annie Hall
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Rob
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Allison
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Tony Lacey
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Pam
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Robin
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Duane Hall
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Mom Hall
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Alvy's dad
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Dad Hall
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Alvy's mom
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actor boy friend
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Alvy, aged 9
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man in theatre line
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Dorrie
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Miss Reed
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himself
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Grammy Hall
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Alvy's aunt
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Alvy's uncle
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Joey Nichols
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Aunt Tessie
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Janet
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coke fiend
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man 1 outside theatre
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man 2 outside theatre
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ticket seller at theatre
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doctor
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himself
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navy officer
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comedian at rally
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comic's agent
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comic
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Maharishi
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L.A. policeman
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Tony Lacey's girlfriend
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Lacey party guest
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Lacey party guest
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Lacey party guest
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Lacey party guest
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Lacey party guest
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Lacey party guest
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hotel doctor
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Alvy's psychiatrist
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Annie's psychiatrist
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actress in rehearsal
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actor in rehearsal
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rehearsal stage manager
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rehearsal director
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Tony's date at night-club
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Tony's date at night-club
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waiter 1 at night-club
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waiter 2 at night-club
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street stranger
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street stranger
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street stranger
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street stranger
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street stranger
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street stranger
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actress in Rob's TV show
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actor in Rob's TV show
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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Alvy's classmate
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school teacher
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school teacher
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school teacher
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school teacher
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waitress at health food restaurant
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man at health food restaurant
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Alvy's date outside theatre
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Annie's date outside theatre
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extra
Max Brandt (uncredited)
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Diane Keaton's Accompanist
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Credits
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Executive Producer
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Producer
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Associate Producer
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Production Manager
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Production Office Co-ordinator
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Location Manager
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Location Manager
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Location Auditor
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DGA Trainee
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Assistant to Mr. Allen
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1st Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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Script Supervisor
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Casting
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Casting (Extra)
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Written by
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Written by
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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Camera Operator
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1st Assistant Cameraman
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Gaffer
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Gaffer
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Key Grip
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Key Grip
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Video Services
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Still Photographer
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Animated Sequences
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Edited by
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Film Editor
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Assistant Film Editor
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Assistant Film Editor
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Art Director
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Set Decorator
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Set Decorator
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Set Decorator
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Scenic Artist
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Construction Grip
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Carpenter
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Propmaster
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Propmaster
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Costume Designer
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Clothing Designs by
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Make-up Artist
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Make-up
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Hairstylist
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Hairstylist
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Titles
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Sound Mixer
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Sound Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Sound Editing
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Sound Editing
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Transportation Captain
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Transportation Captain
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Unit Publicist
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