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Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 film written and directed by Woody Allen.
The film stars Woody Allen (as Cliff), Martin Landau (as Judah), Mia Farrow (as Halley), and Anjelica Huston (as Dolores). The film was met with critical acclaim and was nominated for the following Academy Awards:
Plot
The film is set in 1980s New York and follows two main characters: Judah, a successful Ophthalmologist, and Cliff, a failed Documentary Filmmaker. The two men are each confronted, respectively, with different moral crises.
Judah's crisis concerns the affair he had with an airline stewardess named Dolores. After Judah unceremoniously ends their relationship, Dolores, scorned, blackmails Judah, threatening to tell his wife about their affair. Frustrated and desperate, Judah has her killed, and subsequently must deal with his guilt.
Cliff, on the other hand, falls in love with a woman named Halley, who is producing a documentary Cliff is working on. Cliff becomes despondent over his miserable marriage, and pursues Halley, who eventually rejects Cliff for a man that is his polar opposite.
As with most of his films, Allen makes good use of classical and jazz music in many of the film's scenes. One piece that stands out is Schubert's String Quartet #15 in G, which is used in one particularly dramatic scene.
The film's tone is more somber than that of many other Allen films, and the overall theme is more bleak. It is considered by many to be Allen's most mature film.
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