Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Woody Allen

Guionista (WGA):

Woody Allen (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 enero 1996 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

The new comedy from Woody Allen

Plot:

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a prostitute.

Plot Keywords:

New York | Adoption | Adultery | Sex | Greek Mythology

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Woody coming back

Reparto

Woody Allen	...	Lenny
F. Murray Abraham	...	Leader
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Amanda
Donald Symington	...	Amanda's Father
Claire Bloom	...	Amanda's Mother
Olympia Dukakis	...	Jocasta
Michael Rapaport	...	Kevin
Mira Sorvino	...	Linda Ash
David Ogden Stiers	...	Laius
Jack Warden	...	Tiresias
Peter Weller	...	Jerry Bender
Rosemary Murphy	...	Adoption Coordinator
Steven Randazzo	...	Bud
J. Smith-Cameron	...	Bud's Wife
Jeffrey Kurland	...	Oedipus

También conocida como:

Poderosa Afrodita (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and sex-related material.

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR (Mono)

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Philippines:R-18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Denmark:A | Finland:S | Hong Kong:IIB | Hungary:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R | South Korea:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Magnolia Pictures

Trivialidades:

Claire Bloom only has 10 lines.

Errores:

Errores Reales: The scene at the school where Lenny and Amanda consider sending their child was shot at the City & Country School in New York, a world-famous progressive K-8 school in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. During their visit, a school administrator mentions that the child's test scores are acceptable. In real life, however, the school does not use standardized-test scores when considering prospective students.

Citas:

Cassandra: I see disaster. I see catastrophe. Worse, I see lawyers!

Conexiones de Película:

References Pulp Fiction (1994)

Banda de Sonido:

Manhattan

Woody coming back

I didn't expect to enjoy "Mighty Aphrodite" due to the very lukewarm-to-cool reviews it received, but was pleasantly surprised. The story line revolves around an adoptive father stricken with curiosity about the mother of his adopted son. He secretly locates her and finds that she is a hooker. The movie revolves around the comic antics that ensue when he attempts to turn the woman around and set her on the straight and narrow. The movie is much better than the reviews I read had led me to believe, with much of the old Allen gift for comic dialogue in evidence. It is certainly a better movie than "Manhattan Murder Mystery", his prior effort, and in many ways reminds me of "Broadway Danny Rose". The ending is - surprisingly - oddly touching and affecting in a bittersweet kind of way. I think this is one of Woody's better recent movies.

One caveat; some of the humor of the movie involves parodying some of the conventions of classical Greek drama - the chorus, the masks, etc. etc. Knowing what 'deus ex machina' means really adds to the humor of one of the plot devices that helps to wrap up the story. Watch for Jack Warden in a wonderful comic cameo as a blind beggar (shades of Oedipus?).