Excellent
comic performances, wittily incisive writing, and skilfully restrained
direction combine to hugely entertaining effect, in this prototypical Woody
Allen romantic comedy. Allen plays Allan, a film-loving obsessive being helped
through his divorce by married friends Linda (Diane Keaton), a fellow neurotic,
and Dick (Tony Roberts), an unashamed workaholic. Setting him up on a series of
blind dates, their help proves decidedly unsuccessful but of nevertheless considerable
comfort. However, spending so much time together, and egged on by the screen
spirit of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy), Allan and Linda soon find themselves
falling for each other... Delightful.
