Middle-aged New York married couple Larry and Carol Lipton suspect foul play when their neighbor Paul House's wife Lillian suddenly drops dead.Middle-aged New York married couple Larry and Carol Lipton suspect foul play when their neighbor Paul House's wife Lillian suddenly drops dead.Middle-aged New York married couple Larry and Carol Lipton suspect foul play when their neighbor Paul House's wife Lillian suddenly drops dead.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 4 nominations total
George J. Manos
- '21 Club' Staff
- (as George Manos)
- Director
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- TriviaDiane Keaton replaced Mia Farrow. Woody Allen had written the lead female role for Farrow, but Keaton got the part following the breakup of the pair's personal relationship. There is a rumor that, despite the very public feuding between her and Allen, Farrow showed up for a costume fitting, and needed to be informed that she was no longer in the movie.
- GoofsAt their neighbors' house, Carol prepares coffee in the kitchen. She makes filter coffee and puts a can of water under the filter. You have to pour water in the machine to warm it up and then go through the filter. The can will be filled with coffee in the end.
- Quotes
Larry Lipton: I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.
- SoundtracksI Happen to Like New York
(1930)
Written by Cole Porter
Performed by Bobby Short
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
I was fond of the fly-on-the-wall style they used to film this. Diane and Woody are masters of improvisation and at no point did I feel like this was scripted - they seemed like a real couple arguing over the suspected murder of their neighbour.
Their arguments in this movie are funny - like really funny. Diane plays a frenzied, nosy woman who pries into the lives of other people to make up for the discontent she feels about her own.
Woody plays a loopy older gentleman who has long since been castrated by his overbearing wife and who spirals into a panic attack every time the mildest stressor appears.
The duo is electric because they compliment each other's delusion well. They are basically tripping over each other this entire movie, blathering barely coherent sentences whilst trying to solve a murder case that in all likelihood never happened.
Except it did, and it turns out this pair of conspiracy theorists were onto something all along. This movie is funny, witty and full of one liners.
The scene in which they, along with their investigative cohorts, concoct a plan to expose Paul and then the following scene where they execute it by phone is pure comic genius. It's rare that I laugh out loud for a film but I did here.
Overall, this is a hidden gem and I consider it massively entertaining. Not to be missed.
Their arguments in this movie are funny - like really funny. Diane plays a frenzied, nosy woman who pries into the lives of other people to make up for the discontent she feels about her own.
Woody plays a loopy older gentleman who has long since been castrated by his overbearing wife and who spirals into a panic attack every time the mildest stressor appears.
The duo is electric because they compliment each other's delusion well. They are basically tripping over each other this entire movie, blathering barely coherent sentences whilst trying to solve a murder case that in all likelihood never happened.
Except it did, and it turns out this pair of conspiracy theorists were onto something all along. This movie is funny, witty and full of one liners.
The scene in which they, along with their investigative cohorts, concoct a plan to expose Paul and then the following scene where they execute it by phone is pure comic genius. It's rare that I laugh out loud for a film but I did here.
Overall, this is a hidden gem and I consider it massively entertaining. Not to be missed.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Un misterioso asesinato en Manhattan
- Filming locations
- 21 Club - 21 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,330,911
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,015,360
- Aug 22, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $11,330,911
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