Manhattan

Nominated for two Academy Awards® in 1979 and considered "one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments" (Box office), Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's first film in that format) and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score, Woody Allen's aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence" (Time). 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a hand shake and the gateway to true love is a revolving door.

Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Producer: Jack Rollins
Actor: Woody Allen
Actor: Diane Keaton
Actor: Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Actor: Mariel Hemingway
Actor: Frederic B. Blankfein
Actor: Michael Murphy
Actor: Leslie Bloom
Actor: Meryl Streep
Actor: Mel Bourne
Actor: Marshall Brickman
Actor: Fern Buchner
Actor: Clifford Capone
Actor: Kay Chapin
Actor: Martin Danzig
Actor: Robert Drumheller
Actor: Frances Conroy
Actor: John Doumanian
Actor: Bella Abzug
Actor: Damion Sheller
Actor: Gary Weis
Actor: Anne Byrne
Actor: Karen Ludwig
Actor: Michael O'Donoghue
Actor: Victor Truro
Actor: Tisa Farrow
Actor: Helen Hanft
Actor: Kenny Vance
Actor: Charles Levin
Actor: Karen Allen
Actor: David Rasche
Actor: James Fanning
Actor: Wallace Shawn
Actor: Mark Linn-Baker
Actor: Howard Feuer
Actor: George Gershwin
Actor: Ray Serra
Actor: Romaine Greene
Actor: Robert Greenhut
Actor: Douglas C. Hart
Actor: Jack Higgins
Actor: Jim Hovey
Actor: Vito L. Ilardi
Actor: Charles H. Joffe
Actor: Edward I. Koch
Actor: Ralph Lauren
Actor: Kathleen McGill
Actor: Zubin Mehta
Actor: Michael R. Miller
Actor: Ray Moore
Actor: Susan E. Morse
Actor: Jennifer Ogden
Actor: Michael Peyser
Actor: Jeremy Ritzer
Actor: Jack Rollins
Actor: James Sabat
Actor: Dan Sable
Actor: Fred Schuler
Actor: Raymond Serra
Actor: Gail Sicilia
Actor: Cosmo Sorice
Actor: James Sorice
Actor: Juliet Taylor
Actor: Dusty Wallace
Actor: Robert Ward
Actor: Robert E. Warren
Actor: Morris Weinman
Actor: Gordon Willis
Actor: Albert Wolsky
Actor: Charles Zalben