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Anything Else

In any relationship, one person always does the heavy lifting.

2003 · 1h 48m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Woody Allen

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Overview

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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40%
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Rotten

None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.

Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten

Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten

I didn't laugh once.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten

There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.

Jean Oppenheimer, Hollywood Reporter

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