Manhattan Murder Mystery

1993

Action / Comedy / Mystery

35
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 49333 49.3K

investigation dark comedy neighbor manhattan, new york city

Plot summary

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Director

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Woody Allen

Top cast

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Al Cerullo as Helicopter Pilot
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Joy Behar as Marilyn
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968.87 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
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1.77 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gridoon2025 7 / 10

Overlooked Woody gem

"What would you do if he found you in his house?""I wasn't thinking that far ahead""That far ahead? We're talking two seconds here. All he had to do was look under the bed!""Manhattan Murder Mystery" is 50% Hitchcock, 50% Bergman, and 100% Allen. It's frequently laugh-out-loud funny ("you must pay us in small unmarked bills....or, large marked ones, if you want to go that route"), but beyond that, it's a warmhearted, affectionate, insightful look at marriage and middle age. It is also a love letter to New York, and a homage to old Hollywood movies. And it has probably one of the tightest plots of all his films. Woody is very generous about sharing the spotlight with the other three main leads, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, and Angelica Huston. He and Keaton are perfect together and it's a shame they have never worked together again since 1993 - maybe even as the same characters they play here. It's a wonderful film - one of Allen's best. *** out of 4.
Reviewed by blissey_s 8 / 10

Diane and Woody = Success

I was fond of the fly-on-the-wall style they used to film this. Diane and Woody are masters of improvisation and at no point did I feel like this was scripted - they seemed like a real couple arguing over the suspected murder of their neighbour.Their arguments in this movie are funny - like really funny. Diane plays a frenzied, nosy woman who pries into the lives of other people to make up for the discontent she feels about her own.Woody plays a loopy older gentleman who has long since been castrated by his overbearing wife and who spirals into a panic attack every time the mildest stressor appears.The duo is electric because they compliment each other's delusion well. They are basically tripping over each other this entire movie, blathering barely coherent sentences whilst trying to solve a murder case that in all likelihood never happened.Except it did, and it turns out this pair of conspiracy theorists were onto something all along. This movie is funny, witty and full of one liners.The scene in which they, along with their investigative cohorts, concoct a plan to expose Paul and then the following scene where they execute it by phone is pure comic genius. It's rare that I laugh out loud for a film but I did here.Overall, this is a hidden gem and I consider it massively entertaining. Not to be missed.
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