Woody Allen's slight romantic comedy/mildly barbed satire about moviemaking chronicles the travails of a washed-up art-film director who gets one last chance to redeem his career. The hitch: His ex-wife is the producer and her fiancé is reluctantly bankrolling the project. Once a critics' darling, Val Waxman (Allen) is reduced to shooting deodorant commercials (he can't even get TV movies because Peter Bogdanovich is first in line) until his agent, Al (Mark Rydell), calls with big news. Val jumps at the chance to direct "The City Never Sleeps," a New York-based remake of a classic noir thriller, even after learning that he'll be working with ex-wife Ellie (T...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
114 mins