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  Hannah & Her Sisters - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Elliot loves Hannah's cool, controlled (and slightly flaky) domestic grip on reality, but he lusts after her beautiful, erotic, unfocused sister, Lee (who lives with a brooding, depressed, cynical painter (Von Sydow) who is always threatening to kill himself).
Her self-assurance is unnerving, especially to her ex-husband Mickey, who is an ulcer-ridden hypochondriac who wafts through the streets of New York between Saturday Night Live and various hospital testing labs (he is convinced he's dying).
Her mother in the film, a once-beautiful actress still charged with vitality and charm, is played by Maureen O'Sullivan - Mia's real-life mother.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS by Woody Allen As the last credit appears, the song ends in a crescendo and the screen fades to total fl.
Hannah screams with laughter as she walks toward the end of the table, past a gleeful Holly, who points her finger at Hannah as she passes.
HANNAH (scooting closer to Carol and Norman on the couch, gesturing) Obviously we wou-wouldn't have intercourse.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
But when Hannah’s perfect world is quietly sabotaged by sibling rivalry, she finally begins to see that she’s as lost as everyone else, and in order to find herself, she’ll have to choose -- between the independence her family can’t live withÂ…and the family she can’t live without.
Hannah and Her Sisters appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Ultimately, Hannah and Her Sisters remained acceptable for the most part, but it was nonetheless a fairly flat and drab presentation.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986): Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey
Hannah and Her Sisters is probably the warmest and most accessible (read: least annoying) of Woody's films to date.
Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters," the best movie he has ever made, is organized like an episodic novel, with acute little self-contained vignettes adding up to the big picture...
The ending of Hannah and Her Sisters, which takes us full circle to a Thanksgiving dinner that is both like and unlike the one that starts the picture, is one of the most quietly joyous moments in recent movies....
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 BBC - Films - review - Hannah and Her Sisters
"Hannah and Her Sisters" marked a triumphant return to form - once again on the streets of Manhattan Woody Allen was back with another masterpiece.
The middle sister (Wiest) is a frantically neurotic girl-about-town chasing her own tail in a desperate attempt to find both the money and the break to make her career.
"Hannah and Her Sisters" is on ITV at 12.45am, the early hours of Sunday 4th February 2001.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/11/28/hannah_and_her_sisters_1986_review.shtml   (405 words)

  
 Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah herself is a celebrated stage actress, though she has stayed off the boards for the better part of a decade in order to nurture her children and her clamorous extended family.
Her sister Holly (Dianne Wiest, funny and wondrous) is a sometime-caterer, sometime-writer, longtime depressive and addict who always needs money during the intervals where she's molting some new version of herself.
Perhaps the rarest attribute of Hannah and Her Sisters within Allen's body of work, and this is accurately reflected in the title, is its earnest, complex treatment of family, usually a source of broad ridicule for this filmmaker, whose real interests tend to lie in the streets or between the sheets.
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 Hannah and her Sisters Review (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hannah and her Sisters is probably the warmest of Woody Allen’s comedy-dramas, and despite much infidelity, soul-searching and repressed bitterness, it has neither Manhattan’s subtle contempt for its characters, nor Crimes and Misdemeanors’ generally bleak worldview.
Hannah (Mia Farrow), Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest) are three sisters living a privileged life in New York; daughters of a still-working showbiz couple, they deal with their insecurities in different ways.
Hannah is a successful actress, wife and mother and very much the dominant sister, relentless in her quest to help others, while Lee leads a more reclusive life and is an object of desire for Hannah’s husband Elliot (Michael Caine).
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=398   (879 words)

  
 Hannah & Her Sisters
To her credit, a while later that same girl stepped up and hammered the ball down the field and H's team scored a goal and all was right in Hannahs world again.
D.) and her friends but this afternoon she decided it was a time of celebration because she got free doughnuts (for her report card).
Hannah was the youngest in our crew by far, a co-worker brought his teenage son, but all the rest were adults.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The result was the Oscar nominated film Hannah and Her Sisters, a movie inspired by a various range of sources - from the plays of Henrik Ibsen to some of the later character studies of Ingmar Bergman (most notably its echoes of Cries and Whispers with its familial, sisterly themes).
At its heart it is the story of three sisters, their relationships with each other and with the world around them, over the course of a single year.
This impressive synthesis of style makes Hannah and her Sisters the great film that it undoubtedly is, something that appeals to audiences across the board and to this day remains one of Allen's most popular films.
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 Woody Allen - Hannah and her Sisters | Movie (1986)
Hannah and her Sisters is one of Woody Alien's great films.
Hannah, played by Mia Farrow, was formerly married to TV producer Woody Alien but is now happily wed to agent Michael Caine, who, in turn, secretely lusts for his wife' sexy sister, Barbara Hershey, the live-in mate of tormented painter Max von Sydow.
The third sister (Dianne Wiest) is by far the most neurotic of the bunch and, while waiting for her acting, singing or writing career to take off, runs a catering business with Carrie Fisher.
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 GreenCine | product main - Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events.
Hannah is married to accountant and financial planner Elliot (Michael Caine), who carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist Frederick (Max Von Sydow).
Hannah and Her Sisters collected Oscars for Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, and Woody Allen's screenplay.
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 The DVD Journal: Hannah and Her Sisters
Mia Farrow stars as Hannah, a successful stage actress-turned-homemaker and the oldest of three sisters, who, as her embittered show-biz parents withdraw into their autumn years, assumes the mantle as family matriarch.
Her husband Elliot (Michael Caine) is a seemingly stable accountant, unlike her ex-husband, Mickey (Allen), a TV producer in the grip of a debilitating hypochondria.
Her unsuccessful attempts to emulate Hannah's acting career leave her a bundle of nerves with a mild coke habit.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With you as her mother, her father could be anybody in Actor's Equity!
Wiest seems to be the odd one out as she struggles with everything, thinking of herself as second-rate to sister Farrow.
Not a perfect film, but Allen's amazing story-telling and his superb creation of memorable characters and sequences make "Hannah and Her Sisters" one of the better films of the 1980s.
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 DVD Savant Review: Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah (Mia Farrow) is divorced from Mickey Saxe (Woody Allen) and is raising her two children while managing the emotional lives of her parents (Maureen O'Sullivan & Lloyd Nolan) and her sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest).
In the center of it all is Hannah, who never has any informed participation in the episodes boiling around her, yet pushes through with her senses and dignity and her great Thanksgiving dinners.
MGM's DVD of Hannah and Her Sisters is extras-lite (trailer only) but presents the feature in an unblemished and clear 16:9 transfer that makes you feel like you're walking the New York streets with Woody's actors.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters - Movie Tome
Hannah regularly meets with her sisters Holly and Lee to discuss the weeks' events.
Hannah is married to rock-star manager Elliot, who carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist Frederick.
Meanwhile, Holly, a neurotic actress and eternal loser in love, dates TV producer Mickey, who used to be married to Hannah and spends most of the film convinced that he's about to die.
www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-4225/Hannah_and_Her_Sisters   (83 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
While Hannah's family experience their habitual contentions, the character that threads through the story is Mickey, a faint-hearted TV executive and the epitomic Woody Allen we now think of when his name is mentioned: a timorous, dissatisfied Jewish hypochondriac who strikes out with women and happens to be terrified of dying.
Hannah and Her Sisters is infused with veracity, pathos and humor, but its most conspicuous quality is brilliantly inconspicuous: this may well be the original "show about nothing." Allen leads us through a subtle gamut of condensed emotions, and we walk away content, having experienced something—it's just that it was an uneventful something.
Hannah and Her Sisters is damn near perfect and deserves an equal transfer.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1693   (1200 words)

  
 Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Hannah and Her Sisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hannah and her sisters are the offspring of a New York show business couple (Lloyd Noland and Maureen O'Sullivan) who even in old age are busy trying to upstage each other.
Perhaps that is why everyone seems to depend on Hannah (Mia Farrow), the eldest daughter, a competent and self-sufficient woman who gave up a successful acting career to raise a family in an apartment on Central Park West.
Her strength of character and ability to handle any problem send her husband Elliot (Michael Caine), a financial adviser, into the arms of a sexy, insecure, and guilt-ridden sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), whose affair with Frederick (Max Von Sydow), a sour middle-aged painter, has run its course.
www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_8959.html   (603 words)

  
 JoBlo's Movie Club - Video Capsule: Hannah and Her Sisters (8/10)
The cool thing is that all three sisters in the picture have their own story and each one is interesting in itself.
"Hannah and Her Sisters" is another winner by director/screenwriter/actor Woody Allen as he examines some typically interesting and neurotic New Yorker's whose lives intertwine.
"Hannah and Her Sisters" along with "Husbands and Wives" and "Annie Hall" I consider Allen's masterpieces.
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 Amazon.ca: Hannah and Her Sisters (Widescreen): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" is the finest of the neurotic writer-director-actor's pictures.
There is a scene near the end of this film where Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) n"Lee(Barbara Hershey) meet over lunch and the camera slowly circles them as they engage in a heated emotionally charged conversation that is one of the most poignant moments I have ever seen on a screen.
Mia Farrow has some scenes where her emotions are so vivdly expressed in her words and her facial expression that it is in my opinion one of the finest performances ever.
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 DVD Review - Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her two sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Weist, in an Oscar winning role) have grown up together and are still quite close.
Hannah is currently married to Elliot (Michael Caine, also an Oscar winner here), a professor who's looking for dependency in a lover, and hasn't found it in Hannah.
Meanwhile, Holly, formerly a struggling actress, has turned to screenwriting, and her first screenplay about a love-lost woman who sleeps with her sister's husband hits a little too close for Hannah, who has recently been feeling that Elliot has been completely honest with her.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters on DVD - MovieWeb
Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband Elliot (Michael Caine in an Oscar-winning performance).
Elliot has fallen in love with Hannah's sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), who herself is feeling suffocated by her cynical, mean-spirited loner of a lover, played with great intensity by Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow.
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS is Allen's most fully realized, optimistic adult comedy.
movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?027616860453   (425 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Revisiting Two Comedies (Clockwise, Hannah and Her Sisters)
Her other sister, Holly, is a flaked-out coke-sniffing loser who desperately needs to turn her life around and ends up matched with Hannah's first husband (Woody Allen).
Hannah has some masterful sequences, including one in particular wherein the sisters get together over lunch and all of their conflicts and hostilities are expressed indirectly.
Hannah is his most accessible film, and is probably the fave of non-Allen fans.....nice holiday touches, a syrupy happy ending, lovely music, brilliant cast, Woody grimacing at a punk concert......I have never seen a Woody film I entirely disliked, scandal and all.
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/05/05/105823.php   (2364 words)

  
 Hannah and Her Sisters
Her sister Lee is a bohemian, unable to stand on her own two feet without nurturing someone, and Holly (Dianne Wiest, brilliant) is someone new every week—one day she's an actress, the next a caterer, and now she's dabbling in screenwriting.
Hannah still listens to him, but setting Mickey up on a date with the fickle Holly in the middle of her punk-rock drug phase is probably not the best solution.
Hannah and Her Sisters is ultimately a story of relationships between men and women.
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 Hannah and Her Sisters (Hannah et ses soeurs) Woody Allen Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hannah and Her Sisters is an intricate, well-constructed drama with liberal amounts of comedy within.
Elliot (Michael Caine) looks at Lee (Barbara Hershey), his wife's sister and thinks "God, she's beautiful." He becomes infatuated with Lee, despite his being married to her sister, and her living with a moody artist (Max von Sydow).
Hannah's husband Elliot (Michael Caine) falls in love with Lee, which sets off a series of upheavals.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Hannah And Her Sisters [1986]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mickey's ex-wife Hannah is played brilliantly by Mia Farrow, and the cast is completed by a host of other great names including Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher and, one of Allen's favourites, Julie Kavner.
The integration of Allen's character and the sisters is brought together at the end in a way the viewer could never expect.
Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest and Barbara Hershey are all wonderful as the three sisters and Woody himself is typically neurotic in his role as a hypochondriac comic writer.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069JG1   (1096 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Hannah and Her Sisters (xhtml)
And yet, on reflection, there is a tragedy buried in "Hannah and Her Sisters," and that is the fact of Mickey's status as the perennial outsider.
How he ever married Hannah in the first place is a mystery; it must have been an intermediate step on his jousney to his true role in life, as the ex-husband and hanger-on.
I've got my answer!" Underlying all of "Hannah and Her Sisters" is the envy of Mickey (and Woody) that anyone could actually be happy enough and lucky enough to make such a statement.
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