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Melinda and Melinda

2004 · 100 min

A witty, talky experiment that splits one woman's story into comic and tragic halves, leaving you to weigh which feels truer.

Tagline: Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.
Overview: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
identity
betrayal
addiction
morality
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	7
Romance	7
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny, Wallace Shawn, David Aaron Baker
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Runtime: 100 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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