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Melinda and Melinda

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell View All

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Woody Allen (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 29th, 2004

Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close...

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2 Melinda and Melinda

Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda "Two alternating stories about Melinda's (Mitchell) attempts to straighten out her life." I'm looking forward to this....

7 Melinda Dillon RIP

I feel terrible that I just heard about this and I haven't seen any other posts about it, but am I the only one who missed that Melinda Dillon, two time Best Supporting Actress nominee for Closet ...

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Gideon58
The tragic story has comic elements and the comic story has tragic elements and Woody never commits to one story being more effective than the other and I realize now that this was Woody's point all along...that all stories combine comedy and tragedy, but this made for a rather confusing film experi....

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