MELINDA AND MELINDA
Year: 2004
USA & UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chlöe Sevigny, Wallace Shawn, David Aaron Baker, Arija Bareikis, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Shalom Harlow, Geoffrey Nauffts, Zak Orth, Larry Pine, Vinessa Shaw, Brooke Smith, Daniel Sunjata, Neil Pepe, Michael J Farina, Matt Servitto, Andy Borowitz, Christina Kirk, Alyssa Pridham, Katie Kreisler, Quincy Rose, Rick Vincent Holmes, Michele Durning, Yi-Wen Jiang, Honggang Li, Weigang Li, Nicholas Tzavaras, Rob Buntzen
Director: Woody Allen
Country: USA
USA & UK: 99 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for adult situations involving sexuality, and some substance material
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 25 March 2005 (Limited Release - wider)
USA Release Date: 18 March 2005 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 25 March 2005
Synopsis
MELINDA AND MELINDA combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of crises that give great reign to the funny and serious talents of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny and Wallace Shawn. All the usual Allen areas are explained—the fragility of love, marital infidelity, sophisticated romance, the inability to communicate. As a character in the movie puts it, "He's despondent, he's desperate, he's suicidal. All the comic elements are in place."
The Fox Searchlight Pictures Presentation MELINDA AND MELINDA is written and directed by Woody Allen and produced by Letty Aronson.