CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: 'Poignant, penetrating [and] scathingly hilarious' ('Long Beach Press Telegram'), 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Showcasing Allen's brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his 19th movie, 'Crimes and Misdemeanors', is 'one of the watershed films of his career' ('Los Angeles Times').; ; Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) is an idealistic filmmaker... until he's offered a lucrative job shooting a flattering profile of a pompous TV producer (Alan Alda). Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is the pillar of his community... until he learns that his ex-mistress (Anjelica Huston) plans to expose his financial and extramarital misdeeds. As Cliff chooses between integrity and selling out, and Judah decides between the counsel of his rabbi (Sam Waterson) and the murderous advice of his mobster brother (Jerry Orbach), each man must examine his own morality, and make an irrevocable decision -- that will change everyone's lives forever.
• Cast: Bill Bernstein, Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Gregg Edelman, George J. Manos, Anjelica Huston, Woody Allen, Jenny Nichols, Joanna Gleason, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, Zina Jasper, Dolores Sutton, Joel Fogel, Donna Castellano, Thomas Crowe, Mia Farrow, Martin S. Bergmann, Caroline Aaron, Kenny Vance, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Zaks, Barry Finkel, Steve Maidment, Nadia Sanford, Chester Malinowski, Stanley Reichman, Rebecca Schull, David S. Howard, Garrett Simowitz, Frances Conroy, Anna Berger, Sol Frieder, Justin Zaremby, Marvin Terban, Hy Anzell, Sylvia Kauders, Victor Argo, Lenore Loveman, Nora Ephron, Sunny Keyser, Merv Bloch, Nancy Arden, Thomas L. Bolster, Myla Pitt, Robin Bartlett, Grace Phillips, Randy Aaron Fink, Joel Y. Zion, Major Halley Jr., Walt Levinsky, George Masso, Charles Miles, Derek Smith, Warren Vaché, Pete Antell, Anthony Gorruso, Gary Allen Meyers, Lee Musiker, Tony Sotos, Tony Tedesco, Nancy Cohen, Marilyn Dobrin, Avner Eisenberg, Matthew T. Gitkin, Daryl Hannah, Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, Peter Kalin, Fred Melamed, Benito Mussolini, Mercedes Ruehl, Maggie Wagner
• Director: Woody Allen
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: Orion Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie