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Furthermore, the film provides in Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...
...reflection on its feeble competition than on the film itself. Another in a series of Woody Allen's ruminations of life, love, death and the Big Apple, this movie features very little of Allen himself and focuses on a trio of rather nondescript siblings, played by Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Diane Weist. The critics raved about Hannah when it was first released, but in comparison with other Allen efforts, this well-intentioned clunker comes in a distant sixth or seventh...
...similar spirit moves in his actors. Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger. Barbara Hershey is just as fine as a teacher trying to put a dispassionate face on a passionate nature. And Dennis Hopper brings some fresh, forceful observation and a jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart...
...Derek C. Bok, president of Harvard University: plain M&M's, Charleston Chews, Hershey's Kisses, and Reeses Pieces...
...exceptions of Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her ex-husband Mickey (Woody Allen), none of the characters here can stake a claim to too much sympathy. Together they make up a collection of overgrown children. Hannah's husband Eliot (Michael Caine) longs for his wife's youngest sister (Barbara Hershey); her mother, an actress, is a boozy old flirt; her actor father is a vain failure, and rounding out this lot is Hannah's other sister, the cranky Holly (Diane Wiest...