Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 08/24/2001(USA)
Release Date: 01/29/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: DreamWorks
Writer and director
Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives.
Allen stars as
C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led to the successful conclusion of another case, the recovery of a stolen
Picasso. While he's a valued employee,
Briggs is under fire from efficiency expert
Betty Ann Fitzgerald (
Helen Hunt) for his antiquated attitudes and refusal to accept modern crime-solving techniques such as fingerprinting.
C.W. claims he puts himself directly into the criminal mind, a skill that will do him no good when he and
Betty Ann are hypnotized at a Rainbow Room gathering one night by the magician
Volton (
David Ogden Stiers). As a parlor trick to entertain their co-workers,
Volton makes
C.W. and
Betty Ann believe they're a couple that's deeply in love. But the performer secretly keeps up the ruse after the party's over, calling
C.W. to whisper a magic code word and ordering the detective to rob wealthy homes with security systems that
C.W. himself has designed. With no memory of his thieving activities, a frustrated
C.W. can't solve the high-profile jewel burglaries, while he and
Betty Ann struggle with their odd new attraction for each other, made more complicated by the fact that
Betty Ann is romantically involved with their boss (
Dan Aykroyd).
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Ridiculously Idiotic Comedy-Mystery.
Woody Allen leads an all-star cast as he stars and directs this idiotic spoof rip-off of the classic detective stories set in the 1940s. Allen plays a mousey detective as both he and his beautiful secretary (Helen Hunt) are hypnotized by a sinister hypnotist, and are sent to commit a series of jewel robberies without each other's knowledge. Also starring Dan Aykroyd, Charlize Theron, Wallace Shawn, Elizabeth Berkley, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Markinson, John Schuck, Prof. Irwin Corey, Peter Gerety, Carmen, Michael Mulheren, and Peter Linari.
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