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#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – New York City. Forty year old Lee Simon, a critically panned two time novelist who works as a travel writer (a job he hates) to earn a steady living, tells his shocked wife of sixteen years, English teacher Robin Simon, that he wants a divorce. Although he had not been happy with Robin for some time, she who he feels is a bundle of Catholic repressions and neuroses especially when it comes to sex, Lee finally came to the conclusion about wanting a divorce upon attending his high school reunion and seeing a roomful of losers, he believing he turning into one of them if he didn’t make a drastic change. He gets a job working as a journalist for an entertainment magazine, while he writes screenplays on the side, he believing the latter a good stepping stone to finishing his third novel if the screenplays works out. The journalist job includes conducting interviews with celebrities, not only to who he can pedal his completed screenplay, but also what he quickly learns to who he has easy access to an abundance of sex with the “beautiful people”. Regardless, Lee enters into a relationship with Bonnie, a publishing house story editor who encourages him to complete that novel, which she truly believes will be better than the first two if only due to maturity. Meanwhile, Robin, who is not taking the divorce well, is convalescing at a Catholic retreat before she, with the support of her friends Jan and Cheryl, decides what next to do with her life, she believing that returning to teaching not the answer. During her search, Robin unexpectedly stumbles onto her own connection with celebrity when she meets television producer Tony Gardella, who hires her to be a production assistant with his company. Lee and Robin’s resulting stories take them in two different directions, one toward and the other away from the true happiness that was absent from their marriage.
Plot: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
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 |  6.3/10 Votes: 24,357 |
 | 40% |
 | 41/100 |
 | 6 Votes: 304 Popularity: 9.612 |
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Winona is, once again, the grounding character.
As once said about Beetlejuice, “Without Noni, the film would have floated off into the stratosphere.” Sure, this film is somewhat believable – another Woody Allen masterpiece – but Winona Ryder’s interpretation and presentation of her character, Nola, seems most believable. She’s a desperate movie extra, accepting of any role that comes her way, even if it means lying in bed with another woman… that was hilarious! She’s the most realistic, the most in-tune with reality… definitely the girl next door – or the girl I’d want next door, anyway.
Review By: WRyder Rating: 7 Date: 1999-01-22
Unjustly overlooked
CELEBRITY (1998) ***1/2The biggest irony in CELEBRITY is how long it took to be released in Brazil: two years. This is not a common thing here, but it has also happened to DECONSTRUCTING HARRY, SWEET AND LOWDOWN and now SMALL TIME CROOKS. It seems that they have something against Woody Allen and his fans, but in fact it is a problem among the distributors. However, the wait was worthy: CELEBRITY is a great film.
It received bad reviews in the US for no apparent reason- here in Brazil the reviews were almost universally positive. Maybe the critics are tired of Woody Allen, maybe they just didn’t get his point. The truth is that CELEBRITY is no ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS or CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, but is a great film overall.
The story is about a divorced couple- Lee and Robin Simon (Kenneth Branagh and Judy Davis), who try to find their position in the society. Lee is a journalist who starts to write about art, so he gets closer to celebrities. He gets involved with lots of women- the futile actress Nicole Oliver (Melanie Griffith) who belongs to her husband only down the neck, a supermodel (Charlize Theron) with an “erotic failure”, a cold woman (Famke Janssen) who wants to live with him, and a second rate actress (Winona Ryder) who is not his “obscure object of desire” as he thinks. He is between finish writing his novel (after the bad reviews for his first novel) and trying to sell a script- when he meets another futile star (Leonardo DiCaprio). In resume, his life is a mess with no way-back. In the meantime, his ex-wife Robin, an English teacher, ironically gets more luck than him: she meets a TV producer (Joe Mantegna), who thinks she has a future as a TV presenter.
With a good story in hands, Allen turns it into an acid, funny film. But you know the laughs in his films aren’t gratuitous- they come naturally, or depending on the way you get into the scene. And they are also bitter (remember the subtitles scene in ANNIE HALL)- this taste of humor is not for everyone. The funniest, best scene is when the prostitute teaches Davis’ character how to do a blow-job, using a banana.
As usual, Allen takes great performances from the whole cast. Kenneth Branagh has been criticized for imitating Woody Allen too much, but I think he did a great job. We already know Judy Davis (especially), Joe Mantegna and Winona Ryder are terrific, but it is a miracle what Allen can do with Melanie Griffith, Leonardo Di Caprio and Charlize Theron, usually bland performers. Charlize is the most peculiar character and delivers a great and funny performance.
The main detail of the film is the use of black-and-white. This is not the first time Allen uses that (MANHATTAN, STARDUST MEMORIES, SHADOWS AND FOG), but it is almost a character in this picture- it shows a world that is even more sufocating than ours. With that, he makes an acid critic about our society, that turns superficial, futile people into instant celebrities. This is not new, of course, but here these people are also victims of the sufocating society. If a society can be interpreted by who it chooses to celebrate, it is worse than it seems to be.
Allen commits some mistakes here and there with his critic, but you don’t find many films like this out there- clever, funny, bitter and realistic. Remember the HELP sign on the air…
Review By: danielll_rs Rating: 7 Date: 2000-10-22
Other Information:
Original Title Celebrity
Release Date 1998-09-07
Release Year 1998
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 1 hr 53 min (113 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Woody Allen
Writer Woody Allen
Actors Greg Mottola, Jeff Mazzola, Dick Mingalone, Vladimir Bibic
Country USA
Awards 4 nominations.
Production Company Sweetland Films
Website N/A
Technical Information:
Sound Mix Dolby SR (Mono)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor (prints), DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm
Original title Celebrity
TMDb Rating 6 304 votes
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