Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
Hollywood Ending discovered what may be the problem—Susan Morse is gone. Morse, the editor who had worked with Allen since "Manhattan" in 1979 and who turned into a real soldier by the time of the jazzy montage that characterized "Deconstructing Harry", was reportedly a victim of budget-cutting within the ranks." In 2016, film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey ranked "Hollywood Ending" as the worst movie by Woody Allen. Hollywood Ending Hollywood Ending is a 2002 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also plays the principal character. It tells the story of a once-famous film director who suffers