Scenes from a Mall

Scenes from a Mall (1990)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 28% of users liked it
    (4,911 ratings)

Woody Allen and Bette Midler star as a well-heeled couple who spend their 16th wedding anniversary at the mall shopping for a party that they're throwing that night. In the course of the shopping afternoon, they watch their marriage hit the rocks as serious problems develop when the guy admits to an… More

R, 1 hr. 27 min.
Directed By
Paul Mazursky
Genres
Comedy, Romance
In Theaters
Feb 22, 1991 Wide
On DVD
Apr 8, 2003

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Paul Mazursky's 14th film as director is a cozy, insular middle-aged marital comedy that's about as deep and rewarding as a day of mall-cruising.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Mazursky has returned with a vengeance to his special universe where the upper middle class is the only thing that exists, and this time he has absolutely nothing to say about it.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Scenes From a Mall is a peculiar but, finally, very engaging comedy.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    When a movie seems overflowing with interesting, colorful details, that is often a sign of desperation -- a way of saying, if the picture's no good, get a gaudier frame.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    A close-up look at a couple's painful catharsis so well wedded to marital discord it's like going through a divorce with yourself.

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