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Denholm Elliot, Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest

September is best known as the movie Woody Allen made twice, bang on top of each other, and still brought in on time and on budget. He decided the casting wasn't working, switched some actors a...( read more  read more... )nd roles, and altogether dumped Sam Shepard (who subsequently had very uncomplimentary things to say about Allen as a director of actors). That was some kind of achievement and said reams about Allen's efficiency and adaptability as a filmmaker. Unhappily, the congratulations end there, for September is the single most excruciating viewing experience the Woodman ever invited audiences to share.

You could say September is Interiors without the laughs (joke: there are no laughs in Interiors either), without the pull of the Hamptons shore outside the windows, and without the chill, elegant eye of Gordon Willis behind the camera. Members of a thoroughly unappealing family convene for a weekend in Vermont. Over the course of it, almost everybody reveals a lurking preference to have a new significant other in his or her life. You will not care who, how, or why, or acquire any insights into the mysteries of human relationships. Just as Maureen Stapleton brought the breath of life to the emotionally stunted mollusks in Interiors, so here Elaine Stritch injects some sting as Mia Farrow's irrepressibly bitchy mother. The other cast members are Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest (fresh from her Hannah and Her Sisters Oscar®), Denholm Elliott, and Jack Warden. Them you may sympathize with, for theirs is a thankless task. --Richard T. Jameson

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PG, 83 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Release Date: December 18, 1987

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DVD Release Date: June 5, 2001

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  • Collegekid
    December 31, 2006
    Collegekid
    Pretty good movie
  • graveling861
    March 9, 2009
    graveling861
    Probably one of my least favorite of the Woody Allen movies.
  • lexprime
    July 12, 2009
    lexprime
    The concept was cool. but definitely more of a play
  • reytutiver
    June 7, 2009
    reytutiver
    Simplicity perfected.
  • onomatopee
    March 5, 2009
    onomatopee
    This film is really touching. It doesn't really have the funny touch Woody Allen used to put in all his film. I liked it nonetheless, it makes you think a lot about love and life and relationships in general. Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest are both excellent in their respective role.
  • paulanthonynelson
    January 16, 2009
    paulanthonynelson
    Woody Allen's worst film as director, and I should know, I've seen 'em all. Six annoyingly self-obsessed New Yorkers hole up in a country house and bitch about their lives for 85 minutes, without humour, insight or redemption. I don't know if this is Woody doing a riff on Chekov,...( read more) all I know is it doesn't work. Painful.
  • alexroy69
    August 12, 2008
    alexroy69
    Du Allen à la sauce Bergman, sans la puissance poétique de ce dernier. Beaucoup de dialogues ennuyeux et peu de profondeur dans le développement des personnages. On nage dans un sentiment de généralité du début à la fin ou à peu près. Une ou deux scènes fortes, mais l'ensemble es...( read more)t plutôt fastidieux.
  • elmo4901
    July 23, 2008
    elmo4901
    Good cast but too talky. The entire movie seems rushed. Same year as Radio Days which was far better.
  • MECreviews
    March 22, 2008
    MECreviews
    An ok movie at the time...
  • Epicouros
    March 16, 2008
    Epicouros
    Woody ALLEN , DIRECTS like Bergman . he has the style and its a kind of respect

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