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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304039168
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304039166
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: November 12, 1996
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 1996
Sales Rank: 6656
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Mira Sorvino won an Oscar for her performance as a bubbleheaded hooker and porn star who happens to be the mother of a bright young boy adopted by a Manhattan couple (Woody Allen and Helena Bonham Carter). The story finds Allen's sportswriter character becoming curious about the identity of his son's biological mom, and he strikes up a relationship with her without revealing why. This 27th feature written and directed by Allen is a nice combination of smart comedy and some of the wackier energy of his earliest movies. (Between scenes, there's a running gag involving a Greek chorus--actually filmed among some real Greek ruins--who do song-and-dance interpretations of the script's events.) This isn't Allen at his best, but it is a fine minor work graced by Sorvino's spin on the cinema's archetypal dumb blonde. --Tom Keogh
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Woody Allen has such a brilliantly quirky way with dialog that I am just drawn to everything that he does now, within reason. I am not biased to his films as many have become. I love him, truly, and laud him as one of our greatest working directors, but he is not without misstep.
Thankfully, `Mighty Aphrodite' is not a misstep.
The film tells the story of Lenny, the adoptive father of a genius. Struggling to find himself within his own marriage, Lenny decides to seek ... Read More
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Possibly the best co-actor Woody has ever had in any of his many delightful movies is Mira Sorvino in this funny story. You can't help love Woody Allen all the time. He is likable and funny.
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Woody Allen best and funniest movie since Annie Hall.Mira Sorvino
is unbelievable in her acting.
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Mighty Aphrodite (1995) won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Mira Sorvino, and a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen. Sorvino, the Harvard educated daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, plays a squeaky-voiced, potty mouth hooker. Her character is none too bright, and though she aspires to be an actress, and has appeared in several pornographic films, she is terrible. Somewhat of a stretch, considering that Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award winner, and she graduated ... Read More
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Mighty Aphrodite is hardly Allen at his best. The gags are mostly second rate, some of his devices in his 27th movie come across as second or third rehashes of things he has used before - neurotic middle aged guy involved with whores, ditzy woman who can't get her life in order. Even the original tropes such as the Greek chorus I didn't find particularly funny. It is an uplifting comedy though, very much different from the bleak masterpieces of films such as Crimes and Misdermeanours, and by the end the plot ... Read More
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