Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one tragic and the other comic. It premiered at the 2004 San Sebastián International Film Festival and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 18, 2005, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Plot
Four writers converse over dinner about the value of comedy and tragedy. The question arises: Is life naturally comic or tragic? One of the four proposes a real story he heard somewhere else: a distraught woman named Melinda disrupts a dinner party held by a couple, and a series of events involving affairs and a suicide attempt ensues. 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 | act build cheat date dinner party discover drug abuse even failed actor fall kill playboy playwright real story suicide attempt tragic story widow |
| musicBy | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| producer | Letty Aronson |
| productionCompany | Gravier Productions |
| publisher | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| theme | spy |