It's a dramatic story of a different genre that embodies the life of a television writer. Things are changing in this man's life and may become more complicated when he falls in love with a new mistress. It seems that everything will collapse when you know that mistress is the mistress of his best friend.
Allen serves up a nostalgia that was utterly of its time; he incarnates an idea of the city that, even now, remains as strong as its reality and refracts his disappointed ideals into high existential crises.
With Manhattan, a sparkling romance about the overspecialized anxieties of overintellectualized New Yorkers, Woody Allen has bounced back from the sobriety of "Interiors" to an exhilarating new comic high.
