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Oughta: Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters. Best of the bunch, and a fitting representative of Hannah's excellent and otherwise unrecognized quintet of supporting actresses...
Glowacki's text, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, benefits from lively staging by Arthur Penn and sensitive performances. Ron Silver bearishly evokes the descent from self-doubt to despair. Dianne Wiest (an Oscar nominee for her role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) bubbles with fantasies of redemption: she stuffs a pillow under her clothes and says she will have a child; she tells an enigmatic joke and vows to become a stand-up comic. Each gently deflects the other in a tender marriage, unharrowed by grief...
...listening audience. Here Allen finds cross section enough in a single source, an extended lower-middle-class Jewish family in Rockaway, Queens. Among these dreamers by the glowing dial, the most touching and memorable is again a woman, Aunt Bea (played with becoming lack of sentiment by Dianne Wiest). Since this nameless clan lives near Allen's old neighborhood and includes a shy, slender, red-haired boy, the unwary may conclude that Allen is being autobiographical...
...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...
Hannah and Her Sisters is old-fashioned in another sense: its plot has the elegant geometry of a Philip Barry play. Two triangles converge at a common point: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who has two sisters, Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey), and has been married twice, first to Mickey (Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live...