[timsbella]

My first and only Woody Allen movie was Manhattan which my oldest sister suck me in to see when I was 12. I watched this geezer paw Mariel Hemmingway who was six years older than me. She tried to convince me that it was funny and it was art. I was very clear it was neither. His incestuous marriage did not surprise me.

[ariamne]

That's funny--I was a film major in college and one of our assignments was to write movie reviews; my prof assigned "Manhattan" to me. I HATED it, and was just appalled at the idea of a man Woody Allen's age sleeping with a high school student (under 18 as well). Plus he was just ugly as sin, just what was the attraction for the Mariel Hemingway character, pray tell?

I ripped the movie apart and turned in my review; consequently was chastised by my professor for applying my own morality to the assignment. At the time, I was a liberal myself but could not be shaken in my conviction that this was disgusting and wrong.

And you were 100% right--this movie was not funny nor was it art.