Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one comic, one tragic. The film began a limited release in the United States on March 18, 2005.
Plot
The premise of the film is stated by a group of four writers conversing over dinner at the beginning of the film. The question arises: Is life naturally comic or tragic? One of the four proposes a simple story (a distraught woman knocks on a door and disrupts a dinner party) and the two prominent playwrights in the group begin telling their versions of this story, one being comic and one tragic.
Cast
- Amanda Peet
- Arija Bareikis
- Brooke Smith
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Chloë Sevigny
- Daniel Sunjata
- David Boston
- Gene Saks
- Jacqueline Lovell
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Josh Brolin
- Larry Pine
- Matt Servitto
- Radha Mitchell
- Richard Holmes
- Sabrina Lloyd
- Shalom Harlow
- Stephanie Roth Haberle
- Steve Carell
- Vinessa Shaw
- Wallace Shawn
- Will Ferrell
- Zak Orth
More details
| author | Woody Allen |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Manhattan |
| director | Woody Allen |
| editor | Alisa Lepselter |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | begin dinner party playwright |
| musicBy | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| producer | Letty Aronson |
| publisher | Fox Searchlight Pictures |