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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Screening on Film
Directed by Woody Allen.
With Martin Landau, Alan Alda, Mia Farrow.
US, 1989, 35mm, color, 104 min.

Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors is a thriller that poses a penetrating question: could you have a fulfilling life with the knowledge that you had committed murder? Ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) has the perfect life-good friends, a kind wife, a successful practice. His only difficulty is ending his brief affair with flight attendant Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston), who is hell-bent on ruining his life. When his brother suggests using mob connections to have Dolores killed, Judah is forced to question his own upbringing and basic moral values. Allen's darkest comedy, Crimes and Misdemeanors proposes a world in which virtue is punished, evil-doing is rewarded, and laughter erupts at the most inappropriate times.

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