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Melinda and Melinda

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While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
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Woody Allen's uneven Melinda and Melinda fails to find neither comedy nor pathos in what seems like a rehash of his previous themes.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media 12/26/2010
2/5
Great premise, but talky dramedy doesn't deliver. Go to Full Review Ken Tucker New York Magazine/Vulture 05/12/2006
Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchellâ(TM)s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; thereâ(TM)s no opportunity for an audience to be moved. Go to Full Review Ian Freer Empire Magazine 04/01/2006
4/5
It has great performances, snappy one-liners and a likeably tricksy structure, all wrapped up in an affirmative antidote to life's daunting complexities. Welcome back, Woody. Go to Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/15/2021
Melinda and Melinda simply sits there on screen, inert, flat, unmoving (in both senses of the word). Go to Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed 04/29/2009
3/5
While the main lure for audiences--Will Ferrell--is basically forgettable, Allen does compose one fascinating and witty look at the human mind and its own ability to depict events through our own sub-conscious preference. Go to Full Review Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile 10/18/2008
Reminds us there is little to divide comedy from tragedy, and that neither comes exclusively. After all, the tears of sorrow and the tears of joy both come from the same place, and dampen a tissue with equal intensity. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago s @Thiagostone Apr 17 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, o elenco é mais ou menos, e ninguém ajudou a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e mais relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom. See more Brad S. R Apr 5 I didn't think it was possible to make Will Ferrell this unfunny, but this film is first-rate proof that different styles of humor sometimes really don't mix. See more Rosana B @RosanaBotafogo 01/26/2025 A ideia era boa, a execução horrível, como a protagonista Melinda, em duas histórias idênticas, porem com vertentes distintas, uma trágica e outra cômica, as histórias se misturam de forma muito homogenia, quase impossível diferenciá-las, exceto por algumas nuances na comicidade na dramaticidade, e a interferência externa dos narradores subaproveitada, mas um filme Woody Allen que desgosto, assim como sinto ojeriza por sua pessoa... Bobinho, chatinho, lentinho, entendiante, esquecível... See more Elvis D @Elvis-Del-Valle 03/10/2023 Es difícil decir esto sin que suene tan duro, pero esta es una de las peores películas que existen. Lo único que puedo rescatar es algunos miembros del elenco y alguna que otra situación graciosa, pero el resto de la película es muy aleatorio y no tiene consistencia. Es todo una mezcla de situaciones al punto en que no se entiende que está sucediendo. Ni siquiera es graciosa, es bastante aburrida. No es una película romántica de esas cursis que al menos se puede disfrutar en pareja. Esta es una película que carece de sentido y coherencia lo cual la hace muy poco disfrutable y por eso la califico con un 3/10. See more 07/25/2020 I found it great. Lots of tricky subjects. Discussing the "different views". I love the general experience and the overall theme. See more steve d 06/28/2020 I have found many war dramas funnier than this. See more Read all reviews
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Woody Allen

Director

Radha Mitchell

Melinda

Chloë Sevigny

Laurel

Jonny Lee Miller

Lee

Will Ferrell

Hobie

Amanda Peet

Susan

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Synopsis While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Director
Woody Allen
Producer
Letty Aronson
Screenwriter
Woody Allen
Distributor
Fox
Production Co
Perido Productions
Rating
PG-13 (Sexuality|Adult Situations|Some Substance Material)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 15, 2005, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.8M
Runtime
1h 40m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.37:1)
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