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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) Reviews

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Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin. Over the weekend, another couple converges at Andrew's summer home -- the sly, lady-killer of a doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his date, the deliciously ditzy nurse Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Through the course of the weekend, sexual partners are exchanged and magical fairy tale moments are shared. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Starring:: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, (more)

Director(s):: Woody Allen

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: PG

Format(s):: DVD
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	Yanyan S.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

This movie is full of imagination and funny. I love it.

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	Steve B.

0 out of 0 people found this review helpful

Delightful. Witty,charming,beautiful, artful, romantic. Mary Steenburgen is wonderful, even Woody is most enjoyable.

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	Keith G.

0 out of 0 people found this review helpful

Cute and charming, if not really much more. Gordon Willis's photography is nowhere near as amazing as his earlier collaborations with Woody, and the film lacks any wildly funny moments. But the writing is witty, and the acting solid if not triumphant. It just does not feel like a Woody Allen film somehow. More like a nice, solid, unassuming French farce.

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	Robert P.

0 out of 0 people found this review helpful

There is a Woody Allen style that you either like or don't. Woody has a way with parody. It's idiotic at times and idiotically hilarious. He takes this period piece and gives it the full monty. I'd give it 5 stars if I could get the star thingy to work for me. Oops, got it to work!!!

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