Product Description: A father becomes obsessed with the natural mother of his adopted son. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 6-APR-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video: Mira Sorvino won an Oscar for her performance as a bubbleheaded hooker and porn star who happens to be the mother of a bright young boy adopted by a Manhattan couple (Woody Allen and Helena Bonham Carter). The story finds Allen's sportswriter character becoming curious about the identity of his son's biological mom, and he strikes up a relationship with her without revealing why. This 27th feature written and directed by Allen is a nice combination of smart comedy and some of the wackier energy of his earliest movies. (Between scenes, there's a running gag involving a Greek chorus--actually filmed among some real Greek ruins--who do song-and-dance interpretations of the script's events.) This isn't Allen at his best, but it is a fine minor work graced by Sorvino's spin on the cinema's archetypal dumb blonde. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - A mighty fine example of lightweight brilliance...
Woody Allen has such a brilliantly quirky way with dialog that I am just drawn to everything that he does now, within reason. I am not biased to his films as many have become. I love him, truly, and laud him as one of our greatest working directors, but he is not without misstep.
Thankfully, `Mighty Aphrodite' is not a misstep.
The film tells the story of Lenny, the adoptive father of a genius. Struggling to find himself within his own marriage, Lenny decides to seek out his son's biological mother and what he finds is not what he imagined. Linda, a street-walker, is no where near the genius her son is, but there is a humanity within her that strikes Lenny and endears him. He meets her under the premise of being another `john' but he forms a bond with her that defies the boundaries of her profession. He becomes a father to her; a mature (seemingly) male figure in her life, which ... Read More
Rating: - Mira is a cup full for Woody
Possibly the best co-actor Woody has ever had in any of his many delightful movies is Mira Sorvino in this funny story. You can't help love Woody Allen all the time. He is likable and funny.
Rating: - Woody' s Best
Woody Allen best and funniest movie since Annie Hall.Mira Sorvino
is unbelievable in her acting.
Rating: - Oedipus, Schmoedipus
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Mira Sorvino, and a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen. Sorvino, the Harvard educated daughter of actor Paul Sorvino, plays a squeaky-voiced, potty mouth hooker. Her character is none too bright, and though she aspires to be an actress, and has appeared in several pornographic films, she is terrible. Somewhat of a stretch, considering that Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award winner, and she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in East Asian Studies. While at Harvard, she helped found the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, one of Harvard's premier co-ed a cappella groups, not to mention spending a year of study in Beijing. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and also speaks French. The Oscar win is even more impressive when you consider that she was up against Elisabeth Shue. Shue starred as a prostitute in the 1995 ... Read More
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