Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance Director(s): Woody Allen Release Date: 07 February 1986 Movie rating: 8.0

One of the highlights of Woody Allen’s long and illustrious career, “Hannah and Her Sisters” was both critical and commercial success, becoming Allen’s biggest box office hit and earning seven Academy Awards nominations and winning three of them. Woody Allen won an Oscar for best original screenplay, and Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest both won the award for the best supporting role. The film’s story spans across two years, beginning and ending with thanksgiving, and it follows the tales of three sisters, Hannah (Mia Farrow), Lee (Barbraa Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest) through a time of great emotional tumult. Hannah’s husband Elliot (Caine) begins an affair with Lee, which threatens to ruin their peaceful marriage, and Hannah’s ex boyfriend Mickey (Allen) grows to see Holly in a different light long after one disastrous date a long time ago. Their romantic endeavors are intertwined with their existential crisis, particularly comically in the case of Mickey, who actively plays with the idea of being religious and tries Catholicism and Krishna on for size, before attempting suicide and, ultimately, finding new life energy through the force of comedy. Over the course of two years all of the characters will go through major changes, some relationships will be threatened and others forged, and the situation will be resolved with Allen’s characteristic, “anything goes” light touch.

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