Following "Rhoda", Kavner had a guest appearance on "Taxi" and appeared in the 1985 comedy "Bad Medicine" as well as the 1987 film "Surrender", both of which were box office failures. She appeared in the television movies "Revenge of the Stepford Wives", "No Other Love" and "A Fine Romance", and shot a television pilot. She also starred in several stage plays, including a play called "It Had to Be You" at a dinner theater in Canada, "Particular Friendships" in New York City in 1981, and "Two for the Seesaw", directed by Burt Reynolds. Woody Allen first saw Kavner one night while he was watching "Rhoda" in the 1970s. He thought that she was remarkable and later offered her a role in his 1986 film "Hannah and Her Sisters". Kavner agreed, and credits Allen and the film with rejuvenating her career.