Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1979 & considered one of Allen&s most enduring accomplishments Manhattan is a wry touching & finely-rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation Sumptuously photographed in black & white (Allen&s first film in that format) & accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score Woody Allen&s aesthetic triumph is a "prismatic portrait of a time & place that may be studied decades hence" (Time Magazine) 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he doesn&t love & a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who&s writing a tell-all book about their marriage & whom he&d like to strangle But when he meets his best friend&s sexy intellectual mistress Mary (Diane Keaton) Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy bedding Mary & quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac&s quest for romance & fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake
- & the gate to true love is a revolving door