Mighty Aphrodite
- Woody Allen Lenny
- Mira Sorvino: Linda Ash
- Helena Bonham Carter: Amanda
- F. Murray Abraham, choirmaster
- Peter Weller: Jerry Bendere
- Michael Rapaport: Kevin
- Steven Randazza: Bud
- J. Smith Cameron: Buds woman
- David Ogden Stiers: Laius
- Olympia Dukakis: Iocaste
- Robin Tucker Max as a child
- Jimmy McQuaid: Max
- Donald Symington: Amanda's father
- Claire Bloom: Amanda's mother
- Danielle Ferland: Cassandra
- Jack Warden: Tiresias
Mighty Aphrodite is a comedy by Woody Allen from 1995.
Action
The sports journalist Lenny and his wife Amanda adopt a boy who grows into a clever, humorous and quick-witted child. One day, his curiosity Lenny can no longer restrain and sets out to search for the birth mother of the boy. This is the prostitute Linda, who else - particularly in terms of their intellect - does not correspond to the idea of Lenny. Nevertheless, they are friends, and Lenny tries to reduce them to the path of virtue: he buys them free to Basketball cards from her pimp, and tries to hook up with a decent guy. When his marriage is in crisis, Lenny sleeps with Linda and the two witness a daughter, which he never is, has as Linda never know that Lenny's son Max is her biological child.
Reviews
" A New York sports journalist and a gallery owner who discover that the happiness of their marriage something is missing, adopt a little boy. The man is searching for the mother and finds it in a warm-hearted prostitute to whom he 's attracted. What a tragedy would have been in classical times, which is represented by a Greek tragedy chorus, Woody Allen developed into a pointing a and imaginative, clever and warm-hearted comedy with which he in turn describes the search for meaning an intellectual city people. "
Awards
Mira Sorvino was awarded in 1996 for her portrayal of prostitute Linda with the Oscar for best supporting actress. Woody Allen was nominated for the screenplay for the Oscar.
Mira Sorvino won the 1995 National Board of Review Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the 1996 Golden Globe Award, Chlotrudis Award, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and the Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award. She was nominated for the 1996 Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award.
Woody Allen was nominated for the 1996 Writers Guild of America Award.
Comments
The DVD was released by Arthaus 1999. The DVD is now out of print, but Arthaus has no plans to reprint. In December 2013 STUDIO CANAL brought the The Woody Allen Collection on DVD and Blu- ray on the market. This includes, among other things, the film Mighty Aphrodite.