Manhattan (1979 film)

Manhattan
Manhattan
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Woody Allen
Written by	Woody Allen; Marshall Brickman
Produced by	Charles H. Joffe
Starring	Woody Allen; Diane Keaton; Michael Murphy; Mariel Hemingway; Meryl Streep; Anne Byrne
Cinematography	Gordon Willis
Edited by	Susan E. Morse
Music by	George Gershwin; played by the New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	April 18, 1979 (premiere); April 25, 1979 (United States);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9 million
Box office	$40.2 million

Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star.

Manhattan was Allen's first film in black-and-white, and was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. It features music by George Gershwin, including Rhapsody in Blue, which inspired the film. Allen described the film as a combination of Annie Hall and Interiors.^[4]

The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hemingway and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Allen and Brickman. Its North American box-office receipts of $39.9 million made it Allen's second biggest box-office success (adjusted for inflation). It ranks 46th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list and number 63 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".^[5]^[6] In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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^ Box Office Information for Manhattan. Archived 2015-11-22 at the Wayback Machine The Wrap. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
^ "Box Office Information for Manhattan". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
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^ Woody Allen – Biography by Jason Ankeny (Rovi), in The New York Times
^ Article Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine in New York by Bilge Ebiri on AFI Top 100