Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
ComedyRomanceprostituteadoptionadoptive fatherchild prodigychildlessnesslooking for birth parentsporn staradoptive motherillegal prostitutionpygmalionkidsadopted son
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Character
Comic, contemporary, warm and spare.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
28 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Ironists.
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Cast
- Woody AllenLenny
- Mira SorvinoLinda Ash
- Helena Bonham CarterAmanda
- F. Murray AbrahamChorleiter
- Donald SymingtonAmanda's Father
- Claire BloomAmanda's Mother
- Olympia DukakisJocasta
- Michael RapaportKevin
- David Ogden StiersLaius
- Jack WardenTiresias
Crew
- Woody AllenDirector
- Woody AllenWriter
- Carlo Di PalmaDirector of Photography
- Dick HymanOriginal Music Composer
- Susan E. MorseEditor
- Robert GreenhutProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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