Crimes and Misdemeanors / Преступления и проступки 1989.
“My ex-husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look.”
Cliff Stern: Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. more quotesLester: Comedy is tragedy plus time!
Clifford Stern: A strange man... defecated on my sister.
Wendy Stern: [pause] ... why?
Lester: If you play your cards right, you could have my body.
Halley Reed: Wouldn't you rather leave it to science?
[On Lester]
Halley Reed: He wants to produce something of mine.
Clifford Stern: Yeah. Your first child.
Clifford Stern: [to his wife] Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, ok. It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday.
Clifford Stern: [on Professor Levy's demise] He left a note. He left a simple little note that said "I've gone out the window."
This is a major intellectual and he leaves a note that says "I've gone out the window." He's a role-model. You'd think he'd leave a decent note.
Ben: It's a human life. You don't think God sees?
Judah Rosenthal: God is a luxury I can't afford. facts:facts:
One-third of the film had Woody Allen's character shooting a documentary on old vaudevillians,
with Mia Farrow as the head of the institute to which they belonged. Allen didn't like the scenes in the final cut.
During postproduction he cut an entire third of the film, then rewrote and re-shot that section from scratch.
As a result, Sean Young's scenes were cut out, and Daryl Hannah's role was reduced to a brief cameo.
The role of Prof. Louis Levy, subject of Cliff Stern's documentary in this film, is played by non-actor and therapist friend of Woody Allen's ,
world-renowned Martin Bergmann, clinical professor of psychology in New York University's post-doctoral program.
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.
Woody Allen felt that he had been too "nice" to the characters in the end of Ханна и её сёстры, so he wrote this film as a response to those feelings.
Lester is based on Larry Gelbart, whom both Woody Allen and Alan Alda worked with and reportedly disliked because of his
despotic ways. Lester's various comments such as "Comedy is tragedy plus time" and "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny" were actual Gelbart quotes.
In spite of this reputed dislike for Gelbart, Allen called him "the best comedy writer that I ever knew and one of the best guys" in a statement shortly following Gelbart's death.
Martin Landau was originally cast as Jack Rosenthal.
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.