( some spoiler ) go through a painful divorce movie critic and humphrey bogart enthusiast allen felix and woody allen and spend almost all of his free time in a local revival theater watch old humphrey bogart movie . that where we first see him almost hypnotize watch the final scene of the 1942 bogart or bergman classic casablanca . always on the short end of the stick when it come to have relationship with woman the divorce to his wife nancy and susan aspach and just about destroy whatever confidence he have with the fairer sex . that leave allen so depressed that all he could think of be either kill himself or and in order to get his mind of woman forever and become a eunuch in a turkish sultan harem . allen get to talk his woman problem over with his best friend financial planner dick christe and tony robert and and his pretty and somewhat shy wife linda and diane keaton . the two try to get allen out of his almost suicidal state of mind set him up with a number of single woman that they know at work . all their effort always lead to disaster for the neurotic and depressed allen who blow every opportunity to start up a relationship with the young woman that he set up with . the best advice that poor allen get be from non other then what seem like the ghost of humphrey bogart and jerry lacy and himself . bogart act a allen alter ego tell the shy and withdrawn young man that he have to get over his hang ups and take the bull or woman by the horn . let her know that he in charge and not act like some snivel nebbish who so unsure of himself that he have whatever woman he out on a date with just walk out on him in disgust . like a number of young woman do in the movie and not care at all if they hurt his feeling or not while that just the kind of benign contempt woman have for the poor slob . bogart who no matter how he try to get allen on the right track with woman just can not get the guy to break out of his insecurity . it not until allen be alone with linda who husband dick be out of town on a business trip and then the spark really start to fly . one of woody allen best and most personal movie have the shy and introverted movie critic slowly overcome his inability to make it with the opposite sex with help of not only humphrey bogart but sweet and kind linda christe as well . not expect anything to happen the two alone in allen san francisco apartment get so catch up with this uncontrollable passion that by the time the night be over allen and linda be in bed recover from an evening that they will both remember for the rest of their life . dick who suspect that his wife linda have be have an affair while he be away on business go into the same kind of depressed state of mind like his friend allen . dick later confides in him about the heartbreak he have over linda infidelity and how by neglect her in favor of his constant business pursuit may very well have have be responsible for them . it both funny as well a sad when we see dick and his best friend allen talk over dick fear of lose his wife linda and blame himself for her leave him by not pay any attention to her but be too involve in his job . it also a bit strange and almost comical to hear dick threaten to kill linda lover . dick tell a befuddled and almost speechless allen felix that he have to lose linda to some big stud . as much a he feel sympathy for his friend dick dilemma allen be at the same time also in a way embarrassingly impressed and in he fact that dick unknowingly think of him a be a big lady man and by it . it be also strange that even though dick know that allen be with linda all the time he be away from her and that she even mention his name in her sleep dick for the life of him couldn not put two and two together . which show just how little he think of allen a someone who can impress a woman and like linda or anyone else and to leave him . the movie touchingly recreate the final scene in the film casablanca with allen felix do his best humphrey bogart imitation by have linda leave him for her husband dick whom she be go back to and if very reluctantly and anyway and forget about him with both her . it then that dick and linda board the plane thats leave for cleveland and out of the now wiser and far more confidant and thanks to humphrey bogart and with woman allen felix life forever . a the movie end allen and humphrey bogart make a parting of the way on the fog drape and almost empty tarmac . allen know that he finally find the secret of what be a success and which be simply be himself and with woman really be . humphrey bogart now know that he no longer need a allen guardian angel then go back and by disappear into the cold and foggy night and to hollywood and movie heaven to the music of a time go by .