Hannah and Her Sisters

A story between two Thanksgivings.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Timing: 1:47 (107 min)
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Budget
$6 400 000
Box office
$40 084 041
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Director
Scenario
Producer
Robert Greenhut, Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins
Camera operator
Carlo Di Palma
Composer
Artist
Stuart Wurtzel
Audition
Juliet Taylor
Editing
Susan E. Morse
Whole Team (49)

Short description

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Woody Allen admitted in an interview that the idea to write the screenplay for the film came to him after he reread Leo Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina'.
  • Originally, Woody Allen wanted to make the film's ending more bleak, but the producers persuaded him to rework it into a slightly more optimistic one.
  • The apartment that belongs to Hannah in the movie was Mia Farrow's own apartment at the time.
  • Some scenes were filmed in the home of Mia Farrow, the actress who played Hannah; during filming, the actress and her children simply went about their daily routines. This was not easy for the actress and her loved ones, nor for the film crew. According to Michael Caine (who played Elliot), it frequently happened that while Farrow was feeding her children, she would be told she needed to perform in a particular scene; she would put everything aside and go into the next room, where the filming equipment was already set up, and shooting would begin.
  • Some scenes were filmed in the home of Mia Farrow, who played the role of Hannah, and during filming, the actress and her children simply went about their daily routines. This was not easy for either the actress and her family, or the film crew. According to Michael Caine (who played Elliot), it repeatedly happened that when Farrow was feeding her children, she was told that she needed to perform in a particular scene, she would postpone it and go to the next room, where the filming equipment was already set up, and filming would begin.
  • The apartment that belongs to Hanna in the film was, at the time, the apartment of Mia Farrow.
  • Woody Allen 'placed' almost all of his household members in roles in the film. Mia Farrow, who played Hanna, was his wife at the time. Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Hanna’s mother, is actually Mia Farrow’s mother. Allen also cast two of Mia Farrow’s biological children and two adopted children in the film.
  • Woody Allen originally wanted the film's ending to be bleaker, but the producers persuaded him to rewrite it to be slightly more optimistic.
  • Woody Allen confessed in an interview that the idea to write the film's screenplay came to him after rereading Leo Tolstoy's novel 'Anna Karenina'.
  • Woody Allen cast almost all of his household members in the film. Mia Farrow, who played Hannah, was his wife at the time. Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Hannah's mother, is actually Mia Farrow's mother. Allen also cast two of Mia Farrow's biological children and two of her adopted children in the movie.

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