Movie
1995
Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 American comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, and F. Murray Abraham. The screenplay revolves around a sportswriter named Lenny Weinrib (Allen) and his search for his genius adopted son's biological mother, ultimately finding that she is a dim-witted prostitute named Linda Ash (Sorvino).
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I was always a little reserved with the films of the great Woody Allen, although his style is very well marked and the tendency towards comedy is always present, there was no direct identification with the director-actor. However, this 1995 work has the stellar performance of the beautiful Mira Sorvino, who in my opinion gives it a touch of freshness and validity through time. I am referring to the film Mighty Aphro…More
Being prolific film maker can be artistic virtue by itself, but often quantity comes at the expense of quality. For most of his career Woody Allen managed to avoid this curse and his films, despite tendency to resemble each other, provided satisfying levels of humour, wit and diversity and thus maintained Allen's reputation. However, as time went by, even some of critically acclaimed (and Oscar-awarded) Allen's film…More
