Woody Allen's period-piece paean to tough-but-softhearted broads and the wisecracking investigators who love 'em. Manhattan, 1940: Rumpled C.W. Briggs (writer-director Allen), a top investigator for North Coast Casualty and Fidelity, is constantly butting heads with forward-thinking efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt). She, meanwhile, is having an affair with the otherwise sweet and well-meaning company head, Magruder (Dan Aykroyd). When the office gang takes a colleague out for his birthday, nightclub mentalist Voltan (the masterful David Ogden Stiers) hypnotizes Briggs and Fitzgerald and tells them they're in love. Before snapping them out of it, Vo...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
103 mins