Manhattan (film) Manhattan (film) Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star. "Manhattan" was filmed in black-and-white and 2.35:1 widescreen. The film features music composed by George Gershwin, including "Rhapsody in Blue", which inspired the idea behind the film. Allen described the film as a combination of his
Manhattan (film) harsher, crueler, deeper-going, more assertive but in the end no less life-affirming than 'Annie Hall,'" and declared "Manhattan" "even better" than that film. Alexander Walker of the "London Evening Standard" wrote: "So precisely nuanced is the speech, so subtle the behaviour of a group of friends, lovers, mistresses and cuckolds who keep splitting up and pairing off like unstable molecules". In 2007, J. Hoberman wrote in "The Village Voice": "The New York City that Woody so tediously defended in "Annie Hall" was in crisis. And so he imagined an improved version. More than that, he cast this shining city in