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* IgnoredEpiphany: Judah realizes what he's doing is morally bankrupt, and agonizes over it, then just shrugs and basically says IAmAMonster and a VillainWithGoodPublicity and lives with it.
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* DoingItForTheArt: [[InUniverse Cliff]]. His wife Wendy urges him to use his filmmaking talents for greater financial gain and peer recognition. To that end, she arranges for her brother Lester to get profiled by Cliff.
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* DoingItForTheArt: [[invoked]] [[InUniverse Cliff]]. His wife Wendy urges him to use his filmmaking talents for greater financial gain and peer recognition. To that end, she arranges for her brother Lester to get profiled by Cliff.
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*OminousLegalPhraseTitle.OminousLegalPhraseTitle: From the use of the term in US impeachment proceedings.
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* HeelRealization: Judah. Subverted in that [[IAmAMonster he learns he can live quite comfortably with his deeds]].
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Woody Allen and Alan Alda had both worked with and weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' and elsewhere.
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* IdiotBall: Cliff is offered a high-paying, high-profile job by his arrogant but well-connected brother Lester to create a hagiographic documentary that could potentially lead to more lucrative work. Instead, he deliberately sabotages it by comparing the egocentric Lester to Mussolini, thus getting himself fired.
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* IdiotBall: Cliff is offered a high-paying, high-profile job by his arrogant but well-connected brother brother-in-law Lester to create a hagiographic documentary that could potentially lead to more lucrative work. Instead, he deliberately sabotages it by comparing the egocentric Lester to Mussolini, thus getting himself fired.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The image most commonly used for this film shows Martin Landau and Woody Allen sitting next to each other. In fact, their characters share exactly one scene.
* DeathSeeker: Arguably Dolores. She repeatedly threatens to ruin Judah's life both personally (by revealing their affair to his wife) and professionally (by letting his partners know of his embezzlement). Assuming she knows of his gangster brother, it's not hard to guess what he might resort to. Could also qualify as an IdiotBall if she wasn't deliberately seeking death.
* DeathSeeker: Arguably Dolores. She repeatedly threatens to ruin Judah's life both personally (by revealing their affair to his wife) and professionally (by letting his partners know of his embezzlement). Assuming she knows of his gangster brother, it's not hard to guess what he might resort to. Could also qualify as an IdiotBall if she wasn't deliberately seeking death.
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* TakeThat: [[{{In-universe}} Cliff, to Lester]]. Cliff screens his profile doc for Lester, who is treated to seeing himself making a sleazy pass at an actress and hearing his words set to footage of UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Francis The Talking Mule. Lester was not amused.
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* TakeThat: [[{{In-universe}} [[InUniverse Cliff, to Lester]]. Cliff screens his profile doc for Lester, who is treated to seeing himself making a sleazy pass at an actress and hearing his words set to footage of UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Francis The Talking Mule. Lester was not amused.
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The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), (Allen), a documentarian documentary filmmaker who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Creator/AlanAlda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass, and finds himself falling for Lester's assistant Halley (Mia Farrow).
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''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen. The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Creator/AlanAlda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass, and finds himself falling for Lester's assistant Halley (Mia Farrow).
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''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen.
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The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Creator/AlanAlda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass, and finds himself falling for Lester's assistant Halley (Mia Farrow).
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* MeanigfulName: Dolores spends most of the movie severely depressed. "Dolores" means "sorrows".
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* GallowsHumor: Honestly, a story about a man whom Cliff's sister meets through a personal ad and debases her and might have raped her shouldn't be funny - but it's hilarious.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Alan Alda and Woody Allen weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' and elsewhere.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Alan Alda and Woody Allen and Alan Alda had both worked with and weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' and elsewhere.
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* MoodWhiplash: From tragedy to comedy and back again.
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''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen. The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Creator/AlanAlda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass, and finds himself falling for Lester's assistant, assistant Halley (Mia Farrow).
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crass, and finds himself falling for Lester's assistant, Halley (Mia Farrow).
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Alan Alda and Woody Allen weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' ''Series/{{MASH}}'' and elsewhere.
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* TakeThat: [[{{In-universe}} Cliff, to Lester]]. Cliff screens his profile doc for Lester, who is treated to seeing himself making a sleazy pass at an actress and hearing his words set to footage of BenitoMussolini and Francis The Talking Mule. Lester was not amused.
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''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen. The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Alan Alda), (Creator/AlanAlda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Woody's favorite documentary subject, a professor who seems to have a sunny outlook on life, kills himself. Cliff is especially depressed about his suicide note: "I've gone out the window."
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->''"God is a luxury I can't afford."''
-->-- '''''Judah Rosenthal'''''
''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen. The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Alan Alda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass.
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!!Tropes appearing in ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' include:
* AuthorAvatar: As usual, Woody's character is a DeadpanSnarker with relationship issues.
* ARareSentence:
--> '''Cliff''': A strange man...defecated on my sister.
* BigBrotherWorship: Cliff's wife Wendy is Lester's sister. It's unclear which is the older sibling, but Wendy greatly admires her brother.
* BodyMotifs: The eyes. Judah's father, a religious man, was fond of saying that "The eyes of God are on us always" when Judah was a boy. Judah grew up and became an opthamologist. Judah's rabbi went blind right about the same time [[spoiler: Judah had Dolores killed]]. When Judah [[spoiler: visited the scene of the crime, he found Dolores dead but with her eyes still open. He took a moment to close them.]]
* CoolUncle: Cliff is this to Jenny.
* DiesWideOpen: Dolores. Her dead eyes pierce through Judah's soul.
* DoingItForTheArt: Cliff. His wife Wendy urges him to use his filmmaking talents for greater financial gain and peer recognition. To that end, she arranges for her brother Lester to get profiled by Cliff.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Judah isn't even ''suspected'' of having his mistress murdered, let alone punished]].
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: When Judah decides to have his mistress murdered]].
* MyCard: Detective: ''"If you remember anything that might help..."''
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Judah experiences this, but he gets over it.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Alan Alda and Woody Allen weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' and elsewhere.
* TakeThat: Cliff, to Lester. Cliff screens his profile doc for Lester, who is treated to seeing himself making a sleazy pass at an actress and hearing his words set to footage of BenitoMussolini and Francis The Talking Mule. Lester was not amused.
* TooSoon: The film basically has the TropeCodifier ("Comedy is tragedy plus time".)
* {{Yandere}}: Dolores.
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->''"God is a luxury I can't afford."''
-->-- '''''Judah Rosenthal'''''
''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' is a 1989 {{Dramedy}} written by, directed by, and starring Creator/WoodyAllen. The film follows [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two stories]]: the "A" story is about Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a successful opthamologist and active philanthropist, struggling to break free of a mistress who wants him to leave his family for her. The "B" story is about Cliff Stern (Creator/WoodyAllen), a documentarian who finds popular culture and materialism repellent. Rosenthal is forced to make a decision by his insistent mistress [[MeaningfulName Dolores]] (AnjelicaHuston), while Stern, hopeful to complete his masterwork, agrees to profile his brother-in-law Lester (Alan Alda), a wealthy and successful television producer Stern considers shallow and crass.
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!!Tropes appearing in ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' include:
* AuthorAvatar: As usual, Woody's character is a DeadpanSnarker with relationship issues.
* ARareSentence:
--> '''Cliff''': A strange man...defecated on my sister.
* BigBrotherWorship: Cliff's wife Wendy is Lester's sister. It's unclear which is the older sibling, but Wendy greatly admires her brother.
* BodyMotifs: The eyes. Judah's father, a religious man, was fond of saying that "The eyes of God are on us always" when Judah was a boy. Judah grew up and became an opthamologist. Judah's rabbi went blind right about the same time [[spoiler: Judah had Dolores killed]]. When Judah [[spoiler: visited the scene of the crime, he found Dolores dead but with her eyes still open. He took a moment to close them.]]
* CoolUncle: Cliff is this to Jenny.
* DiesWideOpen: Dolores. Her dead eyes pierce through Judah's soul.
* DoingItForTheArt: Cliff. His wife Wendy urges him to use his filmmaking talents for greater financial gain and peer recognition. To that end, she arranges for her brother Lester to get profiled by Cliff.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Judah isn't even ''suspected'' of having his mistress murdered, let alone punished]].
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: When Judah decides to have his mistress murdered]].
* MyCard: Detective: ''"If you remember anything that might help..."''
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Judah experiences this, but he gets over it.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[invoked]] Lester is basically Larry Gelbart, whom Alan Alda and Woody Allen weren't enamored of. The quotes Lester makes like "[[MemeticMutation Tragedy is comedy plus time]]"? Gelbart constantly prattled those aphorisms on the set of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' and elsewhere.
* TakeThat: Cliff, to Lester. Cliff screens his profile doc for Lester, who is treated to seeing himself making a sleazy pass at an actress and hearing his words set to footage of BenitoMussolini and Francis The Talking Mule. Lester was not amused.
* TooSoon: The film basically has the TropeCodifier ("Comedy is tragedy plus time".)
* {{Yandere}}: Dolores.
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