Melinda and Melinda
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Woody Allen
Alyssa Pridham
Larry Pine
Honggang Li
Will Ferrell
Quincy Rose
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Over a meal in a Chinese restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners: Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. The story starts as follows: A young Manhattan couple, Park Avenue princess Laurel and tippling actor Lee, throw a dinner party to impress Lee's would-be producer when their long-lost friend Melinda appears at their front door, bedraggled and woebegone. In the tragic version of what happens next, the beautiful intruder is a disturbed woman who got bored with her Midwestern doctor-husband and dumped him for a photographer. Her husband took the children away and she spiraled into a suicidal depression that landed her straight-jacketed in a mental ward. In the comic version, Melinda is childless and a downstairs neighbor to the dinner hosts, who are ambitious indie filmmaker Susan and under-employed actor Hobie. Back and forth the stories go, contrasting the destinies of the two Melindas.
Director
Woody Allen
Cast
Alyssa Pridham
Larry Pine
Honggang Li
Will Ferrell
Quincy Rose
Vinessa Shaw
Geoffrey Nauffts
Matt Servitto
Steve Carell
Brooke Smith
Josh Brolin
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Yi-wen Jiang
Arija Bareikis
Nicholas Tzavaras
Andras Schiff
Shalom Harlow
Radha Mitchell
Andy Borowitz
Rick Holmes
Daniel K Grosso
Neil Pepe
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Amanda Peet
Jonny Lee Miller
Daniel Sunjata
Weigang Li
Rob Buntzen
Dick Hyman
David Aaron Baker
Heinz Roemheld
Wallace Shawn
Zak Orth
Katie Kreisler
Christina Kirk
Michael J Farina
Michele Durning
Chlod Sevigny
Crew
Tom Adair
Michael Adkins
Woody Allen
Sarah Allentuch
Gary Alper
Coll Anderson
Letty Aronson
Johann Sebastian Bach
Abby Bailey
Matt Balzarini
Daniela Barbosa
David E Baron
Julia Barraclough
Michael Barry
Bela Bartok
Stephanie Biear
Eubie Blake
Johannes Brahms
Lew Brown
Nancy Cabrera
Michael Cerullo
Ryan Collison
Gregory Conroy
Sara Corrigan
Mark Cronogue
Edgar De La O
Eddie De Lange
Matt Dennis
B. G. Desylva
Patricia Kerrigan Dicerto
Leo Driver
Elise Durant
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Tracy Ershow
Karen E. Etcoff
Redd Evans
Robert Fama
James Feldman
Ed Ferraro
Eduardo Garabal
Erroll Garner
Dean Garvin
Frank Garziadei
Danielle Giovanniello
Rafael Gonell
Regina Graves
Michael Green
Scott Gregoire
Steve Guilbaud
Brian Hamill
Adam Hamilton
Adam Hamilton
Daniel Hamilton-lowe
James Harris
Elizabeth Hedges
Robert Hein
Ray Henderson
Janet Henry
Wayne Herndon
Lori Hicks
Petr Hlinomaz
Will Hudson
Dick Hyman
Charles H. Joffe
Thomas Kodros
Scott Kordish
John Kouromihelakis
Brian Lamia
Frank Leal
Adam Leon
Alisa Lepselter
Terry Lewis
Glenn Lloyd
Santo Loquasto
Pietro Lorino
Michelle Mader
Derek Manganelli
David Mann
Gary Martone
Winsome Mccoy
Sylvia Menno
Jill Meyers
Jessica Miglio
Irving Mills
Talley Morse
Wayne Moss
Christie Mullen
Henry Nemo
Morgan A Neville
Yleana Nunez
John Ottesen
Dave Paterson
Richard Patrick
Glenfield Payne
Ron Petagna
Charles Quinlivan
Andy Razaf
John Redmond
Frankie Ritacco
Helen Robin
Helen Robin
Heinz Roemheld
Jack Rollins
Kyle Rudolph
Judy Ruskin Howell
Bob Russell
Chinyere Ryan
Cliff Schorr
Julie Schubert
Kevin Shaw
Nuria Sitja
R. Vincent Smith
James Sorice
John Spady
Igor Stravinsky
Billy Strayhorn
Pete Tavis
Juliet Taylor
Stephen Tenenbaum
Marilyn Teorey
David Thompson
Amy R Trachtman
Bill Tripician
Carl Turnquest
Jimmy Van Hausen
Joe Violante
David Wahnon
Sheila G. Waldron
Tom Warren
Ned Washington
Paul Weathered
Barry White
Barry White
Akil Wilson
Leo Wood
Timothy J. Wood
James Q Wright
Eric Wrolstad
Roy B Yokelson
Victor Young
William Zsigmond
William Zsigmond
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States March 23, 2005
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
Released in United States September 2004
Released in United States Spring March 18, 2005
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-25, 2004.
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Opening Night) January 28-February 6, 2005.
Robert Downey Jr. was previously attached to star but had to drop out because of the high insurance premium due to his past problems with substance abuse.
Winona Ryder was previously attached to star.
Literary Sale Date: 06/20/2003
Fox Searchlight negotiated a one-picture deal with Woody Allen to finance the film in return for worldwide distribution rights.
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Opening Night) January 28-February 6, 2005.)
Released in United States Spring March 18, 2005
Released in United States March 23, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States September 2004 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-25, 2004.)
Released in United States on Video October 25, 2005
