Melinda and Melinda Movie Review 2005

Allen sticks to the familiar in a talky tale of Manhattanites debating the tragic and comic. Over dinner, playwright Sy (Shawn), who writes comedies, and tragedienne Max (Pine) entertain themselves with an urban anecdote about an unhappy, neurotic woman named Melinda (Mitchell). In both stories she crashes the dinner party of friends with her tale of disaster, causing marital misunderstandings and emotional dramas. The leading males in the story are both ineffectual, unemployed actors (Miller, Ferrell) while their wives (Sevigny, Peet) are successful. And what does that say, we wonder. Or maybe we don't because, despite the talent involved, it all seems rather too precious and rarefied an atmosphere to take much interest.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, Unhappy Meals, Romantic Triangles, Adultery, New York, New York, Interracial Affairs

Screenplay

Woody Allen

Cast

Radha Mitchell, Chloe Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wallace Shawn

Cinematography

Vilmos Zsigmond

Director

Woody Allen

Other

Gary Alper, Alisa Lepselter, Tom Warren, Judy Ruskin, Santo Loquasto

Producer

Letty Aronson, 20th Century-Fox