Hannah and Her Sisters, dir. Woody Allen

Wiz RECOMMENDS Hannah and Her Sisters Like a lot of Woody Allen’s films, its feature is more about the dialogue and actors than anything Allen can do behind the character. This is certainly the case with Hannah and Her Sisters, an at times hilarious film about the lives of upper crust sisters and the people in their lives. Some of the characters in this film are hilariously written and performed. Woody Allen as a hypochondriac TV writer has some of the funnier lines and situations. Dianne Weist has a good performance as well, but she’s also in the film the least (it felt like at least). But the best performance comedically is Michael Caine as a philandering, love stricken husband of Hannah. Caine’s performance as Eliot is hilarious during his love stricken parts but also great in his slight dramatic parts. His story in the film is the best and most entertaining of the entire film. But what’s odd about the film is what is possibly the weakest characters of the film, namely Hannah and her sisters. Save for Weist as Holly, Hannah and Lee, played by Mia Farrow and Barbara Hershey, are easily the least interesting of any of the characters of the film. This is especially strange to deal with when both characters tend to be the two characters love and covet the most. Lee is sort of interesting as a love interest, but Hannah doesn’t have much of anything as a character that is all that compelling. But Hannah and Her Sisters is a film that has some solid strengths with its male characters and stories, but it was surprising to find the weakest elements are usually something that is usually his strength: the writing of female characters.