Mighty Aphrodite

Year:	1995
Director:	Woody Allen
Woody is:	Lenny Weinrib
Also starring:	F. Murray Abraham : Greek Chorus Leader Claire Bloom: Amanda's Mother Helena Bonham Carter: Amanda Olympia Dukakis: Jocasta Michael Rapaport: Kevin Mira Sorvino: Linda David Ogden Stiers: Laius Peter Weller: Jerry Bender Jack Warden (?)
Written by:	Woody Allen
Cinematography:	Carlo DiPalma
Net resources:	The Internet Movie Database Misc: Open Book System

Reviews

• CNN
• Miramax
• Andrew's review
• The San Francisco Chronicle
  

Locations

• There's a scene between Woody and Mira Sorvino filmed on the concrete ramp that leads to the street running from the entrance to David Barton Gym, on 6th Ave (Ave.of the Americas) at 15th Street. Barton's Gym in general is pretty neat to see, and generally one can catch celebs/models coming from andf going to workouts there...
• Teatro Greco, Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Images

Quotes

• Who's the boss between you and mummy?
  I'm the boss. Your mother is just the decision maker.
• He said that he was going to slit my throat and put a bullet between your eyes.
  Really?.... Did he specify the caliber?
• What's your problem? Are you a stroke victim or something?
• Adopt, what. I don't want to adopt. Not with my genes. I have award winning genes.
• Cassandra: I see disaster. I see catastrophe. Worse, I see lawyers!

Music

1. "Neo Minore"
   Vassilis Tsitsanis in Solo Bouzouki
2. "Horos Tou Sakena"
   George Zambetas in Solo Bouzouki
3. "I've Found a New Baby"
   Wilbur de Paris
4. "Whispering"
   The Benny Goodman Orchestra
5. "Manhattan"
   Carmen Cavallaro
6. "When Your Lover Has Gone"
   Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra
7. "L'il Darlin'"
   The Count Basie Orchestra
8. "Take Five"
   The Dave Brubeck Quartet
9. "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)"
   Erroll Garner
10. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You"
    Erroll Gardner
11. "The 'In' Crowd"
    Ramsey Lewis
12. "You Do Something to Me"
    Dick Hyman Chorus
13. "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)"
    Dick Hyman Chorus and Orchestra

Misc

Tim told me:
Woody and Helena Bonham Carter's characters are married and adopt a child. But according to the November issue of Premiere magazine, their neuroses kick in and they have an overwhelming urge to find the baby's birth mother, played by Mira Sorvino, who has called her role "the best dumb blonde role I've ever read".

Michael Rapaport plays a boxer who spars "at least verbally" with Woody, according to a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. And in the November issue of Premiere, Dianne Wiest, who isn't in the film but has seen it, said that it is "Woody's funniest film ever".

Tim told me:
[...]
It stars Woody Allen as a New York sports writer married to Helen Bonham Carter as, I believe a gallery owner. It is already being compared to Husbands and Wives in the way it looks at the relationships of two married couples, the other played by Michael Rappaport and Mia Sorvino. According to a recent issue of USA Today, the film will have a Greek Chorus.

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