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With the 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...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: More Than a Movie | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...Overgrown and Ghostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...should know. For the past 60 years the state agency has controlled the very ebb and flow of my livelihood--so to speak. When my grass gets overgrown, they trim it. When my streams get more polluted, they check my water quality for would-be swimmers. And when I need repairs, they...well...

Author: By T. CHARLES River, | Title: Weeping River | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

This movie is classic Pee Wee. Maybe too much at times, but certainly some of his best stuff. Pee Wee's house is not to be believed, with its collection of gadgets that only an overgrown lid could love...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Child's Play | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

...LITTERED with more bicycle-theme humor, as well as Pee Wee's inimitable laughs, chuckles and snickers. His usual childishness flows easily through the film as well, as witnessed in one scene in which he gets into a "I know you are, but what am I" duel with another overgrown kid from the neighborhood...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Child's Play | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

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