Sudden Manhattan

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Douglas B A brilliant surreal comedy, I have seen this film many times and am always as entertained as the first time I saw it. Adrienne Shelley was a talented comic genius who was tragically taken too soon. Please watch this movie soon. Imagine if Woody Allen was a redhead, dropped acid and wrote a script, you can't go wrong. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/03/24 Full Review Audience Member I only seen this movie once, I have never heard of or seen this movie. It was out when I was a kid, and I just watched it. I have never seen a Adrienne Shelly movie besides Waitress. I went with 3 stars for this movie, I liked it and I would reccomend this movie to others. I think that I would watch this movie again R.I.P. Adrienne Shelly. 3 stars. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member one of the weirdest comedies I have ever seen ! Excellent ! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Adrienne Shelly's directorial debut film, Sudden Manhattan is a refreshing, intellectual, hyper-real look into a group of young Manhattanites just trying to be happy in their lives and figure out the purpose of it all. Donna, our main protagonist, is a job-less, man-less, bored woman who has no idea what she is even doing on this earth; she si bored senseless. One day while walking down the streets of Manhattan, she witnesses a man pull a gun and shoot another man. She tries to report it, but the police right her off as crazy. A few days later, she witness the exact same thing happen again on the same street. At this point, Donna begins to fear for her sanity. Sudden Manhattan is a dark, dry comedy in the vein of Hal Hartley. A decent amount of the film features Donna's inner dialogue which is almost always funny and entertaining to listen too. Donna is surrounded by strange characters likes Adam, a weird intellectual type who loves russian literature but, as he puts it, "hasnt figured out how to use his penis yet" or the fortune teller she meets, who is the most pessimistic person in the world. This is a wacky flick, that really does kinda sum up the craziness of life and in the end its up to oneself to define their life. Hal Hartley must have be proud of Adrienne Shelly for this film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Good movie, but Adrienne Shelley without Hal Hartley is like peanut butter sans jelly. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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