Woody
Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey , Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher,
Michael Caine, Maureen O'Sullivan .
A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah
and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among
a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets
with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey)
to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell each
other that forms the film's various subplots. Hannah is married
to accountant and financial planner Elliot (Michael Caine), who
carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist
Frederick (Max Von Sydow). Meanwhile, Holly, a neurotic actress
and eternal loser in love, dates TV producer Mickey (Allen), who
used to be married to Hannah and spends most of the film convinced
that he's about to die. Appearing in supporting parts are Lloyd
Nolan and Maureen O'Sullivan (Farrow's real mom), as the eternally
bickering husband-and-wife acting team who are the parents of Hannah
and her sisters. The film begins and ends during the family's traditional
Thanksgiving dinner, filmed in Farrow's actual New York apartment.
Unbilled cameos are contributed by Sam Waterston as one of Wiest's
brief amours and Tony Roberts as one of Allen's friends. Hannah
and Her Sisters collected Oscars for Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest,
and Woody Allen's screenplay.
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