Anything Else
Short description
Anything Else is a romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Woody Allen, released in 2003. It follows Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer in New York who falls for Amanda Chase, a free-spirited woman he meets by chance. The relationship soon proves difficult to navigate, and Jerry turns for advice to David Dobel, an older writer who acts as his mentor and offers opinions on love, work and how to get by in the city.
The film stars Jason Biggs as Jerry and Christina Ricci as Amanda, with Woody Allen himself playing Dobel. Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito and Jimmy Fallon appear in supporting roles. It was produced by Letty Aronson, and it is the thirty-first of the forty-eight films Allen has directed, arriving between Hollywood Ending and Melinda and Melinda.
Against a budget of about 18 million dollars, the film took in roughly 14 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.3 out of 10 from around 34,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.2 out of 10 from a much smaller sample of 686 votes. A critics' rating of 5.5 out of 10 from 137 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Carlo Di Palma, who had worked with Woody Allen as a cinematographer for many years, had retired by the time filming began, but expressed a desire to work with Allen one more time. Studio management demanded that Di Palma undergo a thorough medical examination. His health did not allow him to pass it, and the studio refused to work with him. Two years later, in 2004, Di Palma died at the age of 73.
- To a certain extent, the film is based on the story of Woody Allen himself, the screenwriter and director, from the time when he was a budding writer who married young, and then one day met someone older than him who told him a lot about life, humor, and philosophy (and eventually ended up in a mental institution).
- The joke about the boxer, which Woody Allen’s character tells, had already appeared in his previous film, “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989).
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