Zelig (1983) USA
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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
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Woody Allen  ...  (Director)
Woody Allen  ...  (Writer)
 
Mia Farrow  ...  Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher
Woody Allen  ...  Leonard Zelig
John Buckwalter  ...  Dr. Sindell
Patrick Horgan  ...  The Narrator (voice)
Marvin Chatinover  ...  Glandular Diagnosis Doctor
Stanley Swerdlow  ...  Mexican Food Doctor
Paul Nevens  ...  Dr. Birsky
Howard Erskine  ...  Hypodermic Doctor
Ralph Bell  ...  Other Doctor
Richard Whiting  ...  Other Doctor
Will Hussong  ...  Other Doctor
Robert Iglesia  ...  Man in Barber Chair
Eli Resnick  ...  Man in Park
Edward McPhillips  ...  Scotsman
Gale Hansen  ...  Freshman #1
George Hamlin  ...  Experimental Drugs Doctor
Will Hussung  ...  Other Doctor (as Will Hussong)
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