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The film was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1990, for Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau, and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen, but the picture failed to take home an Oscar in any category.
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Nora Ephron: a wedding guest.
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This was the second of two films directed by Woody Allen released in 1989. The first was the "Oedipus Wrecks" segment of New York Stories (1989).
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Woody Allen commented on a private screening of the film to a group of Hollywood celebrities who praised the picture: "I know I must be doing something wrong if my film is being viewed in some Hollywood character's screening room and a group of people there are saying, 'It's his best film,' when many of the things I attack are what they stand for".
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The movie was voted by the UK's 'The Guardian' newspaper readership as the third best Woody Allen film in October 2013.
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Ranked at the No. #267 spot in an Empire Magazine poll of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time".
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This was the first of three Woody Allen films in which Alan Alda starred. The other two are Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996).
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In the rainy night, thunder and lightning come in the same time. Actually there should be few seconds as 'time gap' , according to Physics roles.
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Mercedes Ruehl: Uncredited, as a Party Guest.
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Originally, Alan Alda was only supposed to appear in the opening party scene with Daryl Hannah. Woody Allen expanded Alda's part after he asked Alda to improvise and Allen liked the improvisation. Allen wrote Alda's part as they went along.
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Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow: Uncredited, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, as a Girl at the Wedding Reception.
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During an argument with Cliff, Lester says he has a closet full of Emmys. In real life, Alan Alda had won four Emmys prior to appearing in the film and got another one after the movie.
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Star Martin Landau, who played Judah Rosenthal, was originally cast as the brother Jack, who was cast in the end with Jerry Orbach.
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This is the first of four collaborations of director Woody Allen and cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who had been a regular director of photography for Ingmar Bergman, one of Allen's idols. The pair's three other collaborations were Another Woman (1988), the New York Stories (1989) segment "Oedipus Wrecks" and Celebrity (1998).
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According to the Wikipedia website, "the character of both Judah and his gangster brother [Jack] were said to be influenced by a Jewish medical student who attended NYU [New York University] with one of Marshall Brickman's relatives".
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The role of Professor Louis Levy, the subject of director Cliff Stern (Woody Allen)'s documentary in this film, is played by a non-actor and a therapist friend of Woody Allen, the world-renowned Martin Bergmann, Clinical Professor of Psychology in the New York University's post-doctoral program.
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