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Anything Else (2003)

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Reviews Counted:129

Fresh:52

Rotten:77

Average Rating:5.1/10

Consensus: Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for a scene of drug use and some sexual references

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Limited

Box Office: $3,135,535

Synopsis: Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big,... Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci star as a mismatched couple in Woody Allen's funny and well-made romantic comedy ANYTHING ELSE. Biggs plays Jerry Falk, a young comedy writer looking to make it big, while Ricci is Amanda, a self-absorbed free spirit whom men go wild for. They fall for each other instantly near the beginning of the film, then spend the rest of the movie trying to work out their very complex and complicated relationship, especially after her mother (Stockard Channing) moves in to their small apartment to live with them. With echoes of such classic Allen fare as ANNIE HALL, ANYTHING ELSE is a lighthearted look at young love in the Big Apple. Allen himself stars as David Dobel, an older comedy writer who mentors Jerry, often on walks through Central Park, but it seems that Dobel has a bit of an anger management problem. Once again, New York City is virtually a character unto itself, as Allen includes scenes in such Gotham places as the Village Vanguard jazz club, Isabella's restaurant, Roosevelt Island, Sheepshead Bay, and the Quad Cinema. Good supporting work is turned in by Danny DeVito as Falk's manager. The soundtrack includes songs by Billie Holiday, Ravi Shankar, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Moby, and Diana Krall, who appears in the film. [More]

Starring: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito

Starring: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Woody Allen, Fisher Stevens, Adrian Grenier, Diana Krall

Director: Woody Allen

Director: Woody Allen
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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Lazy, disorganized and rehashed from all [of Allen's] other films.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/19/03
E! Online

Ostensibly sophisticated remarks—lazy references to Freud or Dostoevsky or whatever—pack no dramatic or intellectual weight. But they do make you roll your eyes at how trite, how Woody-Allen-by-the-numbers, they really are.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
09/19/03
Alex Kranz
Alex Kranz
Premiere Magazine

Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
10/09/03
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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At 108 minutes, Anything Else is one of Allen’s longest and most disorganized films.

Full Review Source: East Hampton Independent | comment Comment
09/16/03
Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
East Hampton Independent

Although Ricci holds up her side of the story, Biggs doesn't quite have the screen presence to pull off the other role.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
09/18/03
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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The whole movie feels like a warm-up, a dusting off of cobwebs, like Woody Allen has just woken from a long nap and is finally ready to get back to work.

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10/07/03
Blake Davis
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09/27/03
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
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This anxious comedy wobbles like a retread of Annie Hall.

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09/19/03
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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In order to be a classic Woody Allen movie, Anything Else needs something else - more engaging drama or more comedy, either would work. As it is, it's still not bad.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
09/19/03
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

"Anything Else" represents low ebb for the comic filmmaker famous for transmuting the work of Ingmar Bergman into New York centric comedies full of neurosis based humor.

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