The movie that established Allen as a filmmaker as well as a talented comedian it is an episodic but generally hilarious study of a relationship. It does occasionally get caught up in morbid and blue jokes though I suppose that is what you should expect from Allen. The sequence where he talks to the audience about the know-it-all snob in the cinema queue is extremely funny recalling the best of the Marx Brothers' use of this technique though occasionally the viewer feels the same about Allen's intellectual commentary.

Diane Keaton's real name is Diane Hall and she is often nicknamed Annie.

The one-liners are razor-sharp, the observation of Manhattan manners as keen as mustard and some of the romantic stuff even quite touching. If you can forgive that its a ragbag of half-digested intellectual ideas dressed up with trendy intellectual references you should have a good laugh. Nigel Floyd, 1995

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