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"I wondered of a memory is something you had or something you lost."
Marion Post (Gena Rowlands), director of undergraduate studies in philosophy at a women’s college, is on leave writing a book. Her husband Ken (Ian Holm) is an accomplished cardiologist.
Because of construction next to her home, Marion rented an office downtown to do her work. On the first day, she discovers that she can hear every word spoken in the psychiatrist’s office next door.
Over time Marion becomes enmeshed in the story one of the psychiatrist’s patients tells. The patient, Hope (Mia Farrow), a pregnant woman, is in deep despair and considering suicide. Pondering the young woman’s plight causes Marion to examine her own life.
Betty Buckley as Ken’s first wife Kathy; Blythe Danner and Philip Bosco as Marion and Ken’s friends Lydia and Sam; Sandy Dennis as Marion’s childhood friend Claire and Jacques Levy as her husband Jack; Gene Hackman as Larry who Marion had been tempted to have an affair with years before; John Houseman as Marion’s father as an old man; Martha Plimpton as Ken’s teenage daughter Laura; David Ogden Stiers as Marion’s father when he was young; Harris Yulin as Marion’s brother Paul and Frances Conroy as his wife Lynn.
Thought provoking. Terrific music. Subtle NYC background.
Written and directed by Woody Allen.
Run time: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Rated PG.
My personal rating: B
Marion Post (Gena Rowlands), director of undergraduate studies in philosophy at a women’s college, is on leave writing a book. Her husband Ken (Ian Holm) is an accomplished cardiologist.
Because of construction next to her home, Marion rented an office downtown to do her work. On the first day, she discovers that she can hear every word spoken in the psychiatrist’s office next door.
Over time Marion becomes enmeshed in the story one of the psychiatrist’s patients tells. The patient, Hope (Mia Farrow), a pregnant woman, is in deep despair and considering suicide. Pondering the young woman’s plight causes Marion to examine her own life.
Betty Buckley as Ken’s first wife Kathy; Blythe Danner and Philip Bosco as Marion and Ken’s friends Lydia and Sam; Sandy Dennis as Marion’s childhood friend Claire and Jacques Levy as her husband Jack; Gene Hackman as Larry who Marion had been tempted to have an affair with years before; John Houseman as Marion’s father as an old man; Martha Plimpton as Ken’s teenage daughter Laura; David Ogden Stiers as Marion’s father when he was young; Harris Yulin as Marion’s brother Paul and Frances Conroy as his wife Lynn.
Thought provoking. Terrific music. Subtle NYC background.
Written and directed by Woody Allen.
Run time: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Rated PG.
My personal rating: B
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