Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, and Joanna Gleason.
The film was met with critical acclaim, receiving three Academy Award nominations: Allen, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Landau, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Several publications have ranked Crimes and Misdemeanors as one of Allen’s greatest films.
In this film, Allen blends the comic and dramatic styles in which he has worked over the years, creating in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS a fascinating tapestry of intricately interwoven relationships played against a colorful Manhattan setting. Like Woody Allen’s previous films, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS is told through specific incidents that address universal truths as it explores the big questions. As it touches upon age-old themes, the film’s examination of the dilemmas facing its protagonists is quintessentially modern.
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, the 19th film written and directed by Woody Allen, is about people and the way they choose to live. It’s about love, reality, faith, delusion, success, failure, good and evil – it’s also about what makes people laugh.
Quite simply Woody Allen’s best movie of the 1980s and a nice return to form for him after several miscues with September and Another Woman.
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