Manhattan Murder Mystery

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Release date

1993-05-02

Country

United States

Production

TriStar Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

Genre

Comedy, Mystery

Budget

$13 500 000

Revenue

$2 147 483 647

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Director

Woody Allen

Actors

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Lynn Cohen, Melanie Norris, Zach Braff, Joy Behar, Ron Rifkin
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Scenario

Producer

Robert Greenhut, Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins

Operator

Carlo Di Palma

Composer

Artist

Peter Rogness

Audition

Juliet Taylor

Editing

Susan E. Morse
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• A leading role was written specifically for Mia Farrow, but Diane Keaton got the part. Following this, Farrow decided to end her relationship with Woody Allen, and then, to Allen's dismay, showed up on the set on the first day of filming.
• Carol Lippton (Diane Keaton) claims to hate wearing a tie with a skirt. The actress popularized the combination by playing in the film 'Annie Hall' (1977).
• Woody Allen was partially inspired by "The Thin Man" (1934) when creating this film. Therefore, the main characters were written in the image of Nick and Nora Charles.
• Woody Allen had planned to make his earlier film "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) a mystery murder story, but cut this subplot and used it in "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993).
• "Manhattan Murder Mystery" was actually originally a working title for the film during production (Woody Allen's films usually have more generic working titles in the spirit of "Woody Allen's Autumn Project"), but since he couldn't come up with another title, it was decided to keep it.
• The man in Indiana who murdered six people and ate them is, obviously, a reference to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the first New York Post article about him.
• This is the only one of many collaborations between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in which their characters have a child together.