Annie Hall: A Nervous Romance

Autobiography of Allen Stewart Konigesberg (Woody Allen) and Diane Hall (nee Diane Keaton).
Allen plays himself as Alvy Singer, a middle-aged metropolitan, Jewish, comedian who has an affair with a younger, Midwestern, WASP woman, Annie Hall. 
Sensitive and detailed portraits of lovers enmeshed in a relationship are few. The style of this tale is typical Woody Allan, fraught with neurosis. 

Allen plays the intellectually dominating father figure. (a motif present in: MANHATTAN, and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS) where he teaches her worldly ways and she picks up the torch and runs. Hence, she outgrows him and the relationship. 

"A relationship is like a shark, it has to constantly move forward or it dies. "

Allen prefaces the film with two jokes:

The one about the man who goes to a psychologist and says "Doc, My brother thinks he's a chicken." The Doctor says, Bring him him, I will cure him." The guy says, "I can't, we need the eggs."

The other one he tells is about two old ladies at a Jewish resort, upstate New York. One says to the other: The food here is terrible. And the other says: "Yes, and such small portions."

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen

Written & Directed by Woody Allen. 
US 1977  93:00 minutes   English

cast:
Woody Allen	....	Alvy Singer
Diane Keaton	....	Annie Hall
Tony Roberts	....	Rob
Carol Kane	....	Allison
Paul Simon	....	Tony Lacey
Shelley Duvall	....	Pam
Janet Margolin	....	Robin
Colleen Dewhurst	....	Mom Hall
Christopher Walken	....	Duane Hall
Donald Symington	....	Dad Hall
Helen Ludlam	....	Grammy Hall
Mordecai Lawner	....	Alvy's Dad
Joan Newman	....	Alvy's Mom
Jonathan Munk	....	Alvy at 9
Ruth Volner	....	Alvy's Aunt

Credits  courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.

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