Play It Again, Sam (film)
- Woody Allen: Allan Felix
- Diane Keaton: Linda Christie
- Tony Roberts: Dick Christie
- Jerry Lacy: Humphrey Bogart
Play It Again, Sam (Original Title: Play it again, Sam or aspirin for Three ) is an American feature film of 1972, Woody Allen wrote the screenplay based on his play of the same title and played the male lead. . It was directed by Herbert Ross.
Action
As the film critic Allan Felix is left by his wife because she is bored with him and wants to change her life radically gets his already low self-esteem dealt a heavy blow. His two friends, the couple Linda and Dick, set out to search for a new wife for Allan. But when Allan meets with an attractive woman, he tries to hide behind a mask of exuberant masculinity and silly, but this never works. Rather, it is unable to relax and he makes a fool of himself by numerous clumsy mishaps and desperate acting denunciations. His idol Humphrey Bogart, who appears to him in sticky situations as imagination, trying to stand him with advice. In addition to Bogart he speaks in halluzinationsartigen moments with his ex-wife that attacks him, and will prevent him from having success with other women.
Late Allan noted that the only woman in whose presence he he can remain himself, his girlfriend Linda. But Linda is also his best friend Dick, who, however, neglected because of his work as a stockbroker wife. Since both feel lonely, they spend much time together. One evening, when Dick is on a business trip, they meet at Allan's apartment to cook. However, they only sit longer time side by side on the sofa. While Linda is intoxicated by a Valium tablet, Allan leads a conversation with the reappeared Humphrey Bogart, who gives him advice on how he should behave towards Linda so he can kiss her. At the end of Allan falls ago about Linda, who then flees terrified. After a few seconds she comes back, however, and sleeps with him. They confess their love to the next morning and decide that Linda Dick to tell about it and break up with him. Random meets Allan Dick, before it has learned of her affair. Dick told Allan that he's worried that she has a secret lover, because Linda was talking in his sleep from it. As Allan realizes how much Dick loves Linda, he gets a guilty conscience and decides in favor of his best friend to renounce it. He wants Linda dissuade Dick to talk about their night together. Linda has however already made with thick end. This desperately wants to leave then by plane the city. Eventually, however, Linda realizes that she still loves Dick. In the end, the three meet at the airport and Allan relives the famous final scene from the movie Casablanca, on the title of the film alludes also citing ( " Play it again, Sam! ").
Reviews
"Funny and intelligent comedy to the Woody Allen also provided the theater presentation. The mixture of specifically Jewish sharp tongue and American slapstick, melancholy psychogram and pure slapstick is sometimes a bit unbalanced; the entertainment value does not diminish that. "