Wooden

September (1987)

Woody Allen directs a straight up drama staring two of his usual collaborators Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest. It took two attempts to get this film made, it was filmed then rewritten, recast and reshot before being released.

The plot of the film is fairly simple, Denholm Elliot wants to be with Mia Farrow who wants to be with Sam Waterson who wants to be with Diane Wiest who is married and does not want to upset her good friend Mia Farrow. Basically a bunch of supposedly intelligent people whine about the person they want ignoring them and when finally there is a confrontation everyone goes back to how they were and nothing really changes. The film is meant to be like a play and would probably have faired better on the stage as cinematically it is as uninteresting as it's plot.

2/5 even big Woody Allen fans will probably want to skip this one.