Annie Hall (1977) on Netflix
Alvy Singer, a twice-divorced New York comedian, tries to make his relationship with Annie Hall last. She is a Midwestern aspiring nightclub singer he met over tennis doubles.
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- IMDb7.9/10292,834 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
Alvy Singer is a New York stand-up comedian, forty years old, twice divorced and fifteen years into therapy. He grew up in Brooklyn beside Coney Island, the child of parents who argued, and his questions about the emptiness of existence wore his mother down. Playing tennis doubles with friends, he meets Annie Hall, a Midwesterner who dreams of singing in nightclubs. After the match she drives him uptown and pours him wine on her balcony, where their small talk, in their own heads, is an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows her audition for a nightclub. They boil lobsters together for dinner, and he jokes about the strange men from her past; he gives her books about death.
Cast
- Helen Ludlamas Grammy Hall
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Annie Hall (1977)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman first wrote the story as a murder mystery with romance on the side; by Allen's account the killing happened just after the scene where Annie and Alvy miss Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face. They dropped it and finally made their murder picture in 1993 as Manhattan Murder Mystery, again with Diane Keaton.
- Allen wanted Federico Fellini himself for the cinema queue scene, since Fellini's work is what the pontificating man gets wrong. Fellini and Luis Bunuel both turned the cameo down, so Allen pulled media theorist Marshall McLuhan out from off-camera instead.
SPOILER
The closing narration with the joke about how we all need the eggs, the line the whole film lands on, was thought up and recorded only two hours before a test screening.- Two of the film's best-known moments were improvised. Allen found Alvy's childhood house sitting under a roller coaster while scouting Brooklyn with Gordon Willis, and the sneeze that blows away a pile of cocaine came out of a rehearsal; the test-audience laugh ran so long that a pause had to be added so the next line was not lost.
- Costume designer Ruth Morley and Diane Keaton put together the mannish blazers, waistcoats, baggy trousers and ties that late-1970s women copied as the "Annie Hall look". Ralph Lauren has often claimed credit, although only one jacket and one tie in the film came from him.
