Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 romantic comedy film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen and stars Mia Farrow as Hannah, with Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters. It is an adaptation of Visconti's 1960 Rocco and His Brothers.[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 392 × 599 pixels Full resolution (494 × 755 pixel, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)original movie poster source:www. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Robert Greenhut (March 18, 1942) was an American producer. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ... Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning British film actor. ... Barbara Hershey is an American actress, known for her many film roles. ... Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is two-time Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Bafta Award-nominated American actress in stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career. ... Lloyd Nolan (left) in The House on 92nd Street Lloyd Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. ...  , (born April 10, 1929) is an Academy-Award nominated Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboration with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. ... Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957), is an American television and film actor. ... Carlo Di Palma (April 17, 1925, Rome, - July 9, 2004, Rome) was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both color and black-and-white films, who collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni (Il deserto rosso (1964); Il provino (1965); Blowup (1966); Identificazione di una donna (1982)), Woody Allen (Hannah and... Orion Pictures Logo Orion Pictures Corporation was a United States movie production company, formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ... Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... The First Thanksgiving, painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress. ... Barbara Hershey is an American actress, known for her many film roles. ... Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is two-time Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Bafta Award-nominated American actress in stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career. ... Luchino Visconti. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) is a 1960 film directed by Luchino Visconti. ...

The film's ensemble cast also includes Allen, Michael Caine, Carrie Fisher, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow, and Julie Kavner. Daniel Stern, Lewis Black, Joanna Gleason, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all have minor roles, as do Tony Roberts and Sam Waterston, whose are uncredited cameo appearances. Several of Farrow's children, including a pre-adolescent Soon-Yi Previn, have credited and uncredited roles, mostly as Thanksgiving extras. Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning British film actor. ... Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist, best known for her role as Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy. ... Maureen OSullivan as Jane in Tarzan and His Mate Maureen O’Sullivan (17 May 1911 – 23 June 1998) was an Irish actress. ... Lloyd Nolan (left) in The House on 92nd Street Lloyd Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. ...  , (born April 10, 1929) is an Academy-Award nominated Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboration with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. ... Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda in the 1970s, as an actress in several Woody Allen-directed films, and for providing the voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television show The... Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957), is an American television and film actor. ... Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, and actor. ... Joanna Gleason (born Joanne Halprin on June 2, 1950 in Winnipeg, Manitoba), is a Canadian-born actress, who has been a successful character actor in film, television and on stage. ... Julia Elizabeth Scarlett Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning American actress and comedian who gained popularity while playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. ... Tony Roberts (born October 22, 1939 in New York) is an film actor who is best know for his work in the films of Woody Allen. ... Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an Oscar nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order. ... Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... Soon-Yi Previn (born October 8, 1970) is a South Korean-American woman who is the adoptive daughter of Mia Farrow. ... Extra may refer to: Extra (actor), an actor who has no role or purpose other than to appear in the background of a scene. ...

The film is Allen's biggest box office hit thus far, without adjusting for inflation, with a North American gross of $41 million. Adjusted for inflation it falls behind Annie Hall and Manhattan, and possibly also one or two of his early comedies. [2] Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Critical recognition

Hannah and Her Sisters received seven Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Allen's writing was recognized with an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and he earned a nomination for Best Director. His work on the film was also recognized with two BAFTA Awards. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

Caine and Wiest each won Oscars, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film was also Oscar-nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... // The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ...

In France, the film was nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Film. César Award for Best Foreign Film: 1976: Scent of a Woman (Italy), directed by Dino Risi 1977: We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italy), directed by Ettore Scola 1978: A Special Day (Italy), directed by Ettore Scola 1979: The Tree with the Wooden Clogs (Italy), directed by Ermanno...

Influential critics Siskel & Ebert each rated the film among the top three of the 1986 film year; Ebert's 1986 review of the film began with "Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters [is] the best movie he has ever made." Ebert & Roeper (Originally titled as Siskel & Ebert) is a popular movie-review television program starring film critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper, both of the Chicago Sun-Times. ... // April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ...

Plot

The story is told in three main arcs, with almost all of it occurring during a twelve-month period beginning and ending at a Thanksgiving party hosted by Hannah (Farrow) and her husband Elliot (Caine). Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the story; her own story as a successful actress is somewhat secondary but most of the events of the film connect to her. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The First Thanksgiving, painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). ...

An adulterous romance between Elliot and one of Hannah's sisters, Lee (Hershey), provides the main romantic entanglement of the film. Elliot's discontent with his wife's self-sufficiency and resentment of her emotional strength causes him to look elsewhere. Lee has lived for several years with a reclusive artist, Frederick (von Sydow). She finds herself in a relationship with Frederick that is no longer romantic or intellectually stimulating, the latter in spite of Frederick's professed interest in continuing to teach her about life. She leaves Frederick, much to his sorrow (for he has grown dependent upon her), and has a secret affair with Elliot lasting for several months. Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. ...

Mickey (played by Allen in the neurotic persona common to many of his films) provides the comic relief. Part of his story are scenes from his previous marriage to Hannah and his horrible date with the cocaine-addicted Holly (Hannah's other sister, played by Wiest), shown in flashbacks. Mickey's main story is one of a hypochondriac confronting the possibility of an actual serious disease. It turns into a career-pausing existential crisis, and leads to unsatisfying experiments with religious conversion, before a long walk and the fortuitous opportunity to view Duck Soup helps remind him why life is worth living. The revelation helps prepare him for a second date with Holly, which this time blossoms quickly (and mostly off-screen) into a relationship and marriage. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Persona literally means mask , although it does not usually refer to a literal mask but to the social masks all humans supposedly wear. ... In literature and film, a flashback (also called analepsis) takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ... See also hypochondriasis. ... The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Holly's story is the film's third main arc. She's an unsuccessful actress, who dabbles in a catering business, competing with April (Fisher), a fellow actress and her business partner, for acting parts and a man. Holly loses both, and decides to try her hand at writing. The career change forces her to once again borrow money from Hannah, a dependency that Hannah welcomes and Holly resents. After writing a script inspired by Hannah and Elliot (a story that Holly sets aside after Hannah objects to just how much of the couple's private life Holly had incorporated in it), she writes a story inspired by April, which Mickey reads and admires greatly, vowing to help her get it produced.

A minor arc in the film tells part of the story of Norma and Evan (played by O'Sullivan and Nolan, who were both in Never Too Late twenty years earlier). They are Hannah's parents, who still have acting careers of their own, careers disrupted at times by Norma's alcoholism. Evan's piano playing provides part of the entertainment during the Thanksgiving get-togethers. Maureen OSullivan as Jane in Tarzan and His Mate Maureen O’Sullivan (17 May 1911 – 23 June 1998) was an Irish actress. ... Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...

By the time of the film's second Thanksgiving Lee has ended her affair with Elliot. In a final coda-like act, another year has lapsed, and the film ends happily for the three sisters, now all married. Coda sign Coda (Italian for tail; from the Latin cauda), in music, is a passage which brings a movement or a separate piece to a conclusion through prolongation. ...

Box Office

Hannah and Her Sisters opened on February 7, 1986 in 54 theatres, where it made a stellar $1,265,826 ($23,441 per screen) in its opening weekend. When it expanded to 696 theatres on March 14, it made a less spectacular $2,707,966 ($3,809 per screen). Still, it went on to gross $40,084,041, and to this day holds the distinction of highest-grossing Woody Allen movie.[3] Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...

Trivia

• 39 Steps perform Slip Into the Crowd at CBGB in one scene.
• Dianne Wiest declares she's pregnant at the conclusion of the film; In Bullets Over Broadway, Cheech (Chazz Palmienteri) tells David (John Cusack) to have Wiest's character Helen Sinclair to say she's pregnant at the conclusion of the play. Wiest won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for both films.

39 Steps are an alternate rock/punk rock band from Canada, best known for their single Slip Into the Crowd, which was performed in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters in a scene set at CBGB. Their name is taken from the classic work The Thirty-Nine Steps. ... The outside front facade of CBGB CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. ... Poster for the movie Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 film directed by Woody Allen. ... John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer, born in Evanston, Illinois to a liberal Irish-Catholic family. ... // The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

External links

• February 1986 review from Roger Ebert
• Chart comparing the film with Allen's follow-on film, from a Cal Poly professor's website
• Pageant Books and Prints Shop, website of the setting for a key early scene in the film