Crimes and Misdemeanors

"It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure."

Nov 3 1989 PG-13 1h 44m
Comedy, Drama

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Plot

Judah Rosenthal is an ophthalmologist and a pillar of the community who has a big problem: his mistress Dolores Paley has told him that he is to leave his wife and marry her - as he had promised to do - or she will tell everyone of their affair. When he intercepts a letter Dolores has written to his wife Miriam, he is frantic. He confesses all to his shady brother Jack who assures him that he has friends who can take care of her. Meanwhile, filmmaker Cliff Stern is having his own problems. He's been working on a documentary film for some time but has yet to complete it. He and his wife Wendy have long ago stopped loving one another and are clearly on their way to divorce. He falls in love with Halley Reed who works with a producer, Lester. Cliff soon finds himself making a documentary about Lester and hates every minute of it.

Written by

Woody Allen

Directed by

Woody Allen

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 16 wins & 26 nominations total

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