Everyone Says I Love You
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Alan Alda, Ami Almendral, Drew Barrymore, Madeline Balmaceda, Tommie BaxterDirector: Woody Allen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Everyone Says I Love You
Movie Review: This movie shows why Woody Allen is a cinema genuis!
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody Allen is a Genuis. This movie was Released theatrically in the USA Christmas Day December 25, 1996 when musicals were not popular...But woody Allen had the moxy to do a musical when they weren't in and he did it well. This movie is set in Manhattan and Paris. It shows all the seasons of New york and Paris. But the winter season of the movie is the most incredible parts of the film. This is one of the things i love about mr. allen he uses new york and his surroundings and shows them in a incredible way.
This movie centers around various members of a madcap Manhattan wealthy- very high society, democratic family, who attempts by turns to find romance. Allen returns to his improvisational comic vein, reportedly springing the musical numbers on his nonmusical stars--only Barrymore was dubbed--shortly before production began.
In this film, director Woody Allen mixes song-and-dance with his usual array of neurotic, upscale New Yorkers suffering romantic woes.
Allen's character's daughter DJ-(Natasha Lyonne) is the narrator telling stories about her crazy, multi-layered extended family and their love lives.
Her family includes :
her step-father Bob -(Alan Alda)
her mother Steffi-(Goldie Hawn)
her sister Skylar-(Drew Barrymore),
her sister's fiance Holden-(Edward Norton)
her brother scott (Lukas Haas)
her half sister laura-(Natalie Portman)
ex-convict James Ferry-(Tim Roth)
and the object of her father's obsession Von-(Julia Roberts).
While the impending wedding of young lovers Holden and Skylar is the centerpiece of the film, we also get to know various members of Skylar's family -- and their dysfunctional love lives.
Sklyar( Barrymore) and Holden (Norton) are to get married but things are soon shaken by the fact that her mother invites a just released convict by the name of James Ferry ( Roth) skylar falls for mr. perry and decides to call off the wedding.
that's when the hijinxs begin. But will Skylar choose Holden or Perry ?
Woody allen's character Joe is also in love with Von(Julia Roberts) who just so happens to attend therapy session with Joe's daughter Dj's step sister's friend's mother dj knows everything
about Von and tutors her father about her likes and dislikes.
Laura (portman) on ther hand is competing with her best friend(Gaby hoffman) for the heart of a rich teenage boy.
DJ(Lyonne) while evryone is looking for love for DJ love comes to her and she falls in love with numerous of men thru out this movie...a italian artist, a man she shares a cab with, a man dressed as one of the marxs brothers at a party.
The only person in the film who isn't in love is lukas haas who plays alan alda's son scott they are sort of butting heads with each other cause they can't see eye to eye cause his father is democrat and scott is a republican.
The characters often express their feelings through
such classic tunes as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me,", " If I had you" making this one of the more unique movies in Allen's oeuvre.
Everyone in the movie looks for love in all the wrong places- whether it be in the form of a criminal or neurotic married woman. Three of the best characters is the grandfather- both before and after he dies and the ex convict James Perry- Tim Roth who has a very good singing voice, and drew barrymore who plays a virginal very proper woman ( something we haven't seen drew play) but she shines in this movie.
The cast really makes this movie special. Allen has made a extraordinary modern musical that still has the old-fashion feel to it, a diffucult thing to do in this day and age.
I give it *****5 Stars! and two thumbs way up!
Summary of Everyone Says I Love You
Romance meets comedy in Woody Allen's first movie musical, and it's a glorious celebration of love that had audiences laughing and critics cheering. In intertwining stories, Joe's (Woody Allen) attempt to win the heart of Von (Julia Roberts) takes him to scenic Venice and Paris, while his ex-wife, Steffi (Goldie Hawn), and her current husband, Bob (Alan Alda), deal with erupting family matters in their swank but crowded Manhattan apartment. In the meantime, Steffi and Bob's daughter, Skylar (Drew Barrymore), is torn between two boyfriends (Edward Norton and Tim Roth), adding to the complications. But through it all, Allen's dream cast knows the perfect moment to express their emotions with a classic love song or a hilarious production number. Musical comedy has seldom been played with such wit, humor, and sophistication. Get ready to fall in love with love ... and to sing the praises of EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU!Writer-director Woody Allen has produced yet another challenging and funny film, this time taking on the musical genre and bending it to his own unique vision. The result is one of the most charming films in recent years, as Allen assembles a typically sterling ensemble cast to evoke the romanticism of years past. This time, the large cast (including Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton, and Tim Roth) not only turn in funny and touching performances, but they sing the classic songs of the 1930s and 1940s themselves, and sing them very well. The plot centers on an extended family in New York and their various romantic entanglements, including Allen's pursuit of Julia Roberts through the streets of Paris and the canals of Venice. The musical numbers are the film's high point, displaying wonderful choreography ranging from a room full of dancing Groucho Marxes to a dancing couple in flight at the banks of the Seine. Everyone Says I Love You is a witty and entertaining fantasy, and a truly romantic escape. --Robert Lane
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