Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- witty
- neurotic
- melancholic
- arthouse movie night
- woody allen retrospective
What critics said
Critics found the film an uneven, meandering return to familiar Woody Allen themes that struggles to balance comedy and pathos.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Max and Sy repeatedly reshape Melinda's circumstances according to their tragic and comic artistic temperaments.
The theater writers discuss whether real events are fundamentally comic or tragic while constructing Melinda's story.
Melinda's arrival exposes fractures in marriages, friendships, and apparent dinner-party civility.
The principal observers and storytellers work in theater and interpret private troubles through dramatic conventions.
Films like Melinda and Melinda, and why
Hannah and Her Sisters
shared urban relationship comedy, intellectual dialogue, romantic entanglements, and self-conscious storytelling
Deconstructing Harry
shared split tonal register, ensemble relationship drama, witty conversation, and theatrical self-reflexivity
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
shared neurotic romance, metropolitan social circles, philosophical banter, and comic melancholy
Movie Details
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Release Date
- 2004-12-22
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 (514)
Cast
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Will Ferrell
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Radha Mitchell
- Amanda Peet
- Chloë Sevigny
- Wallace Shawn
- David Aaron Baker
- Arija Bareikis
- Josh Brolin
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Melinda and Melinda about?
- Woody Allen turns one troubled woman's unexpected arrival into competing comic and tragic portraits of love, marriage, and social collapse.
- What is Melinda and Melinda like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Melinda and Melinda as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Melinda and Melinda violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Melinda and Melinda.
- What did critics think of Melinda and Melinda?
- Critics found the film an uneven, meandering return to familiar Woody Allen themes that struggles to balance comedy and pathos.
- Which films are like Melinda and Melinda?
- Films with a similar feel include Hannah and Her Sisters, Deconstructing Harry, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
- How long is Melinda and Melinda?
- Melinda and Melinda runs 100 minutes.
- Where can I watch Melinda and Melinda?
- In United States, Melinda and Melinda is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
