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Here was the quintessential Woody Allen film all over again: the neurotic upper-class Manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses.
I'll dispense with the usual comparisons to a certain legendary filmmaker known for his neurotic New Yorker persona, because quite frankly, to draw comparisons with bumbling loser Josh Kornbluth, is just an insult to any such director.
Rob Reiner made a great laughing limo driver, and Gabriel Byrne a laughable neurotic.
"Match Point" and now "Scoop" have both convinced me that not only is Woody Allen doing a neat job making movies in England (and that Scarlett Johansson is the right cast member), but corroborated what I have known for years: he shouldn't focus on neurotic rich New Yorkers.
Beginning with several different stories bound to meet as the plot goes on, Salazar portraits his women characters in the same neurotic and border-line behaviour familiar to Almodovar.
Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) has just been dumped by his wife, because he is one of the most annoying , neurotic people in the world.
Often laugh out loud, sometimes sad story of 2 working divorced guys -- Lemmon a neurotic clean "house husband" and Matthau a slob sportswriter -- who decide to live together to cut down on expenses.
He's neurotic, paranoid, an alcoholic and a womanizer to boot.
The individual band members go their separate ways and uncomfortably settle into lackluster middle age in the dull and uneventful 90's: morose keyboardist Stephen Rea winds up penniless and down on his luck, vain, neurotic, pretentious lead singer Bill Nighy tries (and fails) to pursue a floundering solo career, paranoid drummer Timothy Spall resides in obscurity on a remote farm so he can avoid paying a hefty back taxes debt, and surly bass player Jimmy Nail installs roofs for a living.
And there it starts - a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero.
It was almost a shame to see him in the same scenes with Campbell, who looks the part of a neurotic sex object but doesn't have the chops to work with him on the level the script called for.
Most of the superheroes aren't billionaires like Bruce Wayne, but blue-collar types with menial jobs and neurotic home lives.
The entire world it seems knows the story of neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and funny, obnoxious, slob Oscar Madison.
It introduces Woody Allen as a complete neurotic who can't seem to look at the open doors all around him and prefers to consult an analyst -- be it an actual psychiatrist or us, the viewer -- and whine about his inability to relate to the little things in life without creating some turbulent drama complete with hoots and clicks.
I agree with other viewers that the Louise character is neurotic at best.
If the producers of "Reefer Madness" had intended to produce a campy, neurotic cult film, they could not have succeeded better.
Adam Goldberg plays Delpy's neurotic American boyfriend who had a bad time in Venice.
Liam Neeson shows he can equally well play the frightened neurotic as the solid heroes of Star Wars and Michael Collins.
Well made faux-Hemingway with Gregory Peck reprising his neurotic pilot from 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, but in a mostly British production; the other American involved is Robert Parrish who smartly helmed.
Allen wrote the screenplay based on his Broadway play and he starred as Allan, a neurotic movie buff who writes the film reviews (what else?).
It is a delight to watch Laurence Harvey as a neurotic chess player, who schemes to murder the opponent he cannot defeat at the chessboard.
What I like about it is that it's Woody at his most neurotic.
The first unfaithful pair consisted of a guy who was a serial adulterer who should have needed a case of Viagra just to keep up with his many affairs and the lady was a self-involved neurotic.
Usually, the box for Allen is considered to be tragic-comic takes on neurotic personalities in modern Manhattan.
Jack Lemmon's tension and neurotic persona are brilliantly played out.
The neurotic parents, bratty kids, oblivious ditsy best friend, womanizer, smug arrogant boss and gay man conflicted about his homosexuality are all represented.
If you're not, I'm sorry, but stereotype neurotic behaviors of New Yorkers just does not turn me on.
If you want neurotic New Yorkers, go see Woody Allen movies, at least these are well made.
Dan Akyroyd is brilliant as an increasingly neurotic businessman who falls for her.
The creativity, the actors, and the Woodster as the neurotic sperm, are great.
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