Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) intercepts a letter from his mistress Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston) trying to reveal their affair to his wife Miriam (Claire Bloom). Dolores insists that he leave his wife. In desperation, he turns to his brother Jack (Jerry Orbach) who hires a hit-man to kill Dolores. Meanwhile Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) is a lowly documentary filmmaker. His braggart brother-in-law TV producer Lester (Alan Alda) hires him to do a documentary on himself as a favor to Cliff's wife and Lester's sister Wendy (Joanna Gleason). Lester keeps hitting on associate producer Halley Reed (Mia Farrow) while Cliff falls for her. Cliff is miserable with the work and would rather film philosopher Prof. Louis Levy. Halley is of the same mind.
Martin Landau is amazing in this. I like his side of the movie a lot. I like Woody's side, too. However I found the split rather distracting. I may want two separate movies out of these stories. Maybe Woody is making a point combining these two stories together. I can guess at the question being posed but at the same time, the point may be too subtle for an idiot like me.
Martin Landau is amazing in this. I like his side of the movie a lot. I like Woody's side, too. However I found the split rather distracting. I may want two separate movies out of these stories. Maybe Woody is making a point combining these two stories together. I can guess at the question being posed but at the same time, the point may be too subtle for an idiot like me.