Melinda and Melinda

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Actors: Steve Carell , Will Ferrell , Wallace Shawn , Chloë Sevigny , Amanda Peet , Josh Brolin , Radha Mitchell , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Jonny Lee Miller , Zak Orth , Arija Bareikis , Shalom Harlow , Stephanie Roth Haberle , Geoffrey Nauffts , David Aaron Baker

Director: Woody Allen

IMDB Rate: 6.5 out of 10 (14169 votes)

Plot Summary:Over a meal in a French restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. The story starts as follows A young Manhattan couple, Park Avenue princess Laurel and tippling actor Lee, throw a dinner party to impress Lees would-be producer when their long-lost friend Melinda appears at their front door, bedraggled and woebegone. In the tragic version of what happens next, the beautiful intruder is a disturbed woman who got bored with her Midwestern doctor-husband and dumped him for a photographer. Her husband took the children away and she spiraled into a suicidal depression that landed her straight-jacketed in a mental ward. In the comic version, Melinda is childless and a downstairs neighbor to the dinner hosts, who are ambitious Indy filmmaker Susan and under-employed actor Hobie. Back and forth the stories go, contrasting the destinies of the two Melindas.