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A comedic look at the highs and lows of celebrity staus and fame.

Product Identifiers

ProducerJean Doumanian

EAN5060192814699

eBay Product ID (ePID)18048559498

Product Key Features

ActorDylan Baker, Michael Lerner, Melanie Griffith, Joe Mantegna, Greg Mottola, Kenneth Branagh, Winona Ryder, Hank Azaria, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judy Davis, Bebe Neuwirth, Andre Gregory, Isaac Mizrahi, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Charlize Theron

Film/TV TitleCelebrity

DirectorWoody Allen

Release Year2014

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time111 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

CastingLaura Rosenthal, Juliet Taylor

Production DesignerSanto Loquasto

Additional InformationWoody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with supermodels and actresses, living the so-called good life, he ends his 16-year marriage to Robin (the marvelous Judy Davis). The split nearly sends Robin off the deep end until she meets Joe Gardella (Joe Mantegna), a television producer who introduces her to a whole new world.<BR>Allen shoots the film in black-and-white as if to take some of the gleam off the lives of these celebrities, many of whom are famous for just being famous. When Robin starts working for Joe, she is responsible for overseeing the talent--the kind of people who regularly appear on such shows as JERRY SPRINGER, looking for their moment in the spotlight. Even a television preacher has religious groupies who yearn for autographs. It is interesting to note that Allen wrote and directed CELEBRITY at a time when his own fame was reaching a crescendo because of his own personal problems, which became so much tabloid fodder; that is perhaps why he does not appear in the film, instead having Branagh speak the offbeat, cynical, funny lines that the Woodman himself usually delivers.

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - ...Allen's surest instincts about the title subject are at work in the high-profile cast....[DiCaprio ends up] juicing the movie with a welcome power surge..., Rolling Stone - ...[A] keenly observant spoof of the fame game..., New York Times - ...Mr. Allen shows a keenly acerbic eye for the scene he sets..., Film Comment - ...[Allen] wields a double-edged satirical scalpel when it comes to the pretensions of the beautiful and famous...

ScreenwriterWoody Allen

Costume DesignerSuzy Benzinger

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorSusan E. Morse

Movie/TV TitleCelebrity

Director of PhotographySven Nykvist

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, sex, drug use