Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
Acting
Mia Farrow's invisible-woman comic timing
Direction
Allen blending Bergman and Lewis Carroll
Costume
Sonia Grande's rich-wife-to-bohemian transformation
Director
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Alice Tate
William Hurt
Doug Tate
Joe Mantegna
Joe
Alec Baldwin
Ed
Blythe Danner
Dorothy
Judy Davis
Vicky
Keye Luke
Dr. Yang
Bernadette Peters
Muse
Cybill Shepherd
Nancy Brill
Holland Taylor
Helen
Gwen Verdon
Alice's Mother
Patrick O'Neal
Alice's Father
Marceline Hugot
Monica
Dylan Farrow
Kate
Rachel Miner
Alice at 12 Yrs.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allen originally wrote this for Mia Farrow in 1984, then shelved it until their relationship publicly crumbled—making her 'unfulfilled wife' role eerily meta.
The film bombed partly because audiences in 1990 wanted Allen's neurosis, not his enchantment; it's since become a secret favorite among his 'second-tier' works.
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