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Sydney, 2000.02.15

This is about a bumbling fellow going through a mid-life crisis, and the wife he leaves early in the movie to become a play-write. While his wife gets back on her feet in reasonably short order, our man makes a series of ever-greater errors in judgement that result in several failed relationships and a lot of misery. Branagh plays Allen's traditional role to a tee, and it quite despicably pathetic, pulling such stunts as breaking up with his girlfriend on the day she's set to move in with him! It's very worth watching.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force