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Director: | Woody Allen |
Studio: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
Producer: | Robert Greenhut |
Writer: | Woody Allen |
Rating: | 7.5 (8,350 votes) |
Rated: | PG |
Date Added: | 2006-06-21 |
ASIN: | B00005O06N |
UPC: | 0027616860491 |
Price: | $14.95 |
Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations |
Genre: | Satire |
Release: | 2001-06-11 |
IMDb: | 0086637 |
Duration: | 79 |
Picture Format: | Widescreen |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 |
Sound: | Dolby |
Languages: | English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
Subtitles: | English, Spanish, French |
Features: | Anamorphic Black & White Dubbed Subtitled |
Summary: The thinking person's Forrest Gump, Woody Allen's 1983 Zelig is a funny, atmospheric mock-documentary about the collision of one man's manifest neuroses colliding with key moments in 20th-century history. Allen plays the title character, a self-effacing, timorous fellow with such a porous personality that he physically becomes a reflection of whoever he is with. Complex and painstaking, the film's pre-Gump special effects manage to place Allen, buried under a series of makeup and prosthetic guises, in a number of scenes along with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally, a pope at the Vatican, and famous guests at a garden party hosted by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Similar in tone and satire to some of Allen's short, comic pieces published in The New Yorker magazine, Zelig is a one-note movie that takes its delicious time establishing the fullness of its central joke. It's well worth the wait. --Tom Keogh
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