Everyone Says I Love You
Short description
Everyone Says I Love You is a Woody Allen musical comedy about a wealthy, liberal New York family whose members drift between Manhattan, Paris and Venice. Joe Berlin, a writer living in Paris, remains tied to his ex-wife Steffi, who has remarried Bob and holds their blended household together. Joe's daughter D.J. schemes to pair her father with a woman she meets, while other relatives navigate their own romantic entanglements over the course of a year.
Allen directed the film and wrote the screenplay, the twenty-fourth of the forty-eight features he has directed, arriving between Mighty Aphrodite and Deconstructing Harry. The cast includes Allen as Joe, Natasha Lyonne as D.J., Goldie Hawn as Steffi, Alan Alda as Bob, Drew Barrymore as Skylar and Edward Norton as Holden, with a large credited cast of 117.
The production had a budget of around 20 million dollars and took roughly half that at the worldwide box office. Film critics rated it 7.2 out of 10 across 43 reviews, while audiences were less enthusiastic, with 6.7 out of 10 on IMDb from around 41,000 votes and 6.4 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 740 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The director didn't tell the actors it would be a musical until they signed the contract.
- Woody Allen asked Goldie Hawn to sing poorly, so it would seem like she was singing for the first time.
- Woody Allen wanted the voices in the film to sound as natural as possible, so all the actors sang themselves, with the exception of Drew Barrymore: she convinced the director of her complete inability to sing. Olivia Hayman sings for Drew Barrymore in the film.
- Drew Barrymore wears a wig in the film, as her own hair was purple at the time of filming.
- Kim Rossi Stuart, Tracey Ullman, and Liv Tyler also appeared in the film, but all scenes with them were cut by Allen during editing.
- Woody Allen made numerous references to the Marx Brothers’ films. Besides the Christmas party featuring impersonations of the famous comedians at the film’s finale, there’s the French song “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” from the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup,” Edward Norton’s dance number mimicking Groucho Marx’s dance from the same film, and the song “You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me” from “Monkey Business.” The film’s title is also a line from a song featured in the Marx Brothers’ “A Horse’s Neck.”
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