Melinda and Melinda
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Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is set in Allen's favorite location, Manhattan, and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two story lines, one comic, one tragic.
The premise of the film is that a group of four writers are conversing over dinner. The question arises: Is life naturally comic or tragic? One of the four proposes a simple story (a distraught woman knocks on a door and disrupts a dinner party) and the two prominent playwrights in the group begin telling their versions of this story, one being comic and one tragic.
Although Radha Mitchell plays Melinda in both versions, no one else is in both. Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star with her in the tragedy, while Will Ferrell and Amanda Peet star with her in the comedy.
The film also stars Wallace Shawn as the comic playwright. Steve Carell has a small part as Ferrell's friend in the comedy.
External links
- Official website (http://www.foxsearchlight.com/melindaandmelinda/) for its 2005 release in the United States
- Official website (http://www.melindaymelinda.fox.es/) for its initial release in Spain
- Production notes (http://www.melindaymelinda.fox.es/melinda.pdf) in Spanish (PDF format)
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