Synopsis
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
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Cast
- Jason BiggsJerry Falk
- Christina RicciAmanda Chase
- Woody AllenDavid Dobel
- Stockard ChanningPaula Chase
- Danny DeVitoHarvey Wexler
- Jimmy FallonBob
- Anthony ArkinPip's Comic
- David ConradDr. Phil Reed
- Adrian GrenierRay Polito
- William HillPsychiatrist
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Tribune
Has some of the wit, sass and sexual candor of an "Annie Hall." But it covers the same kind of territory with more bite and bile. - 75
Rolling Stone
Because Allen hasn't lost his knack for slapstick with a sting, Anything Else hits its mark more often than not. - 70
Variety
The younger casting brings a freshness to the material and, with Allen as the weird mentor, there are plenty of laughs, even if the pacing's slow and the running time over-extended. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Feels newly hatched. Some of the laugh lines creak as loudly as grandma's rocker and the cultural references send up billows of dust. - 70
The New York Times
Small-scale and loose. It feels oddly long for a Woody Allen picture, but its relaxed, casual air gives the humor room to breathe, and a gratifyingly high proportion of the piled-up one-liners actually raise a laugh. - 50
Dallas Observer
Disappointingly mediocre. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
This is a quintessential Allen comedy: squirmy relationships, dark Jewish humor, an assumption that everybody in Manhattan has money and a touch of glamour, and -- as with most of Allen's movies since the first few years of his career -- not nearly as many laughs as it gamely tries for. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
With every recycled piece of business -- which is to say, every scene in Anything Else -- the distance widens between Allen and the elusive audience he pessimistically chases. He has never seemed less in touch with his own real, pulsing, 21st-century city.
