At a Glance

A neurotic New York TV writer is distraught when his wife leaves him for another woman, and to make matters worse, she writes a book about her failed marriage.

Detailed Information

Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of Morden relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumtuosuly photographed in black and white, and accompanied by a maginficent Greshqin score, Woody Allen's Aesthetic triumph is a /2prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studies for decades".

42-year-old Manhattan native Isacc Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he dosnr't love, and a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage...and whome he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intelegent mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Issac falls head over heels in Lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary, and quitting his job are hust the beginning of Issac's quest for romance and fulfilment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gateway to ture love...is a revolving door.