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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
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PG,1hr 28min
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1982
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MGM
Synopsis: Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin. Over ... Full Synopsis
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It was films like this that caused some to give up on Woody Allen in the early '80s, an unfair decision given the high quality of Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, but one not entirely without justification. This is Allen by numbers: Choose a master to follow (in this case Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night), hire a world-class cinematographer to make it look good (here Gordon ... Full Review
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