Anything Else

Anything Else (2003)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (131 reviews)

  • 44% of users liked it
    (21,255 ratings)

A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a… More

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R, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Woody Allen
Written By
Woody Allen
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 19, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Dec 23, 2003
DreamWorks SKG

Critic Reviews

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    I didn't laugh once.

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.

  • Jean Oppenheimer, Hollywood Reporter

    There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jason S


    This wasn't very good. The story was bleah and the actors didn't seem to put out performances at all. I didn't care what happened to any of these people halfway through.

  • Alice S


    I dislike movies about seasoned pros imparting advice to wide-eyed proteges. In terms of Woody's oeuvre, there was too much didacticism and not enough heart...

  • Jennifer X


    it was kind of eerie to see american pie jason biggs emulate woody allen so accurately. christina ricci was uneven but she's completely gorgeous and i can understand why jason biggs is obsessed with her. evokes classic woody allen humor and falters at times but generally… More

  • James A


    For the first time in my life I had to just stop watching a movie due to boredom and shotty diologue.

  • Yinalí R


    I seriously thought this was going to be about some romantic comedy we naturally see. I was SO wrong, in so many levels. This movie is about little psychos who can drain someone, a "life sucker" if you will. Very well done, some plot holes but it's good in general.… More

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