Crimes and Misdemeanors
It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure.
It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Succe...
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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1989
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A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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Details
Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
13 Oct 1989
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Hebrew (modern)
Budget:
$19,000,000
Revenue:
$18,254,702
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 16 wins & 26 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The overall 'philosophical' thrust -- that good guys finish last and that crime does pay -- is designed to make the audience feel very wise, but none of the characters or ideas is allowed to develop beyond its cardboard profile.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
12 Feb 2008
fresh:
The structural and stylistic conceit is that when Landau is onscreen, the film is dead serious, even solemn, while Allen's own appearance onscreen signals hilarious satire and priceless one-liners.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
12 Feb 2008
fresh:
Dramatically, the film seldom fulfils its promise, and its pessimistic 'moral' -- that good and evil do not always meet with their just deserts -- looks contrived and hollow. Intriguing and patchily effective, nevertheless.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The movie's secret strength -- its structure, really -- comes from the truth of the dozens and dozens of particular details through which it arrives at its own very hesitant, not especially comforting, very moving generality.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
The movie generates the best kind of suspense, because it's not about what will happen to people -- it's about what decisions they will reach.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000