Anything Else
A young artist (Jason Biggs) struggling with his career and his muse has problems with his live-in girlfriend (Christina Ricci) and an obsessive teacher (Woody Allen) with a history of mental illness.
14 December 1975, Patterson, Georgia, USA
14 February 1976, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1964, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
27 November 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 February 1944, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
10 July 1976, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
12 May 1978, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
12 February 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA
17 December 1950, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
April 19, 2009
"Anything Else" represents low ebb for the comic filmmaker famous for transmuting the work of Ingmar Bergman into New York centric comedies full of neurosis based humor.
June 22, 2004
(...) Valía la pena seguir esperando la siguiente película de Allen; después de Anything Else no estoy tan seguro de ello.
September 27, 2003
I didn't laugh once.
January 16, 2004
The script is quite entertaining as it plays with the idea of writing and artistic creation. But the plot itself is mildly annoying and seriously dull.
September 21, 2003
There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.
October 09, 2003
Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.
September 20, 2003
There's a lot of truth in the screenplay, and, combined with Ricci's top-notch, can't-take-your- eyes-off-her-when- she's-on-screen performance, this gives the movie a strong spine.
September 23, 2003
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.
July 29, 2004
Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor
January 05, 2004
Seria ótimo se Allen passasse a dedicar mais tempo ao desenvolvimento de suas idéias. É melhor ver um bom filme a cada dois ou três anos do que sofrer uma decepção todo ano.
October 16, 2003
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.
January 17, 2004
The trouble is, Biggs is not nearly as good at this kind of role as Allen. For that matter, Allen is not very convincing as a gun-toting survivalist, either.
