Main Cast: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, William Irwin, Daren Firestone, Rebecca Nickels
Release Year: 1990
Country: US
Run Time: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Woody Allen and Bette Midler star as a well-heeled couple who spend their 16th wedding anniversary at the mall shopping for a party that they're throwing that night. In the course of the shopping afternoon, they watch their marriage hit the rocks as serious problems develop when the guy admits to an earlier infidelity, and an out-and-out argument develops. ~ All Movie Guide
Paul Mazursky - Dr. Hans Clava; Glen Alterman - Owner Museum Shop; Jose Rafael Arango - Bus Boy; Tichina Arnold - Ticket Seller; Laura Baler - Chocolate Candy Girl; Ron Barry-Barry - Man on Car Phone; Amanda Bruce - Woman Interviewee; Augustin Bustamante - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Bobby Caravella - Man in Parking Garage; Chun Long Zhang - Chinese Acrobat; Vira Colorado - Security Guard; Leonel Cruz - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Joan Delaney - Woman Interviewer; Fabio - Handsome Man; Patrick Farrelly - Santa; David Frye - Barber Shop Quartet Member; Penny Gaston - Pharmacy Patron; Heather Golden - Female Sikh; Michael Greene - Motorcyclist; Jonathan Guss - Barber Shop Quartet Member; Carol Harris - Waitress Nuvo Navajo; Telmo Hernandez - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Hidehiko Takada - Sushi Chef; Kathy Kamarr - Magician's Assistant; Donnie Kelber - Kid in Van; Wanakee Legardy - Dress Shop Saleswoman; Anne Lockhart - ADR Voice; Darrell Mason - Joe Cool & the Coolers Member; Betsy Mazursky - Information Woman; Gregory Moore - Barber Shop Quartet Member; Phillip Nozaki - Kid in Van; Steve Ortiz - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Marilyn Pasekoff - Woman at Book Store; Andre Philippe - Taxi Driver; James Duane Polk - Man on Movie Line; Ramon Ponce - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Steven Dominic Prestianni - Male Sikh; Fernando Quinones - El Mariachi Bustamente Member; Minna Rose - Pharmacy Patron; Stewart Russell - Pharmacy Patron; Larry Sherman - Man on Car Phone; Shiro Oishi - Man on Car Phone; Joe Viviani - Pharmacy Patron; Jack Brodsky - Pharmacist; Robert Garrett - Bartender; Stuart H. Pappe - Motorcyclist; Marc Shaiman - Pianist; Joseph Warren - Joe Cool & the Coolers Member; Joy Todd; Billy Graham - Security Guard; Michael Brown - Barber Shop Quartet Member
Credit
Les Bloom - Art Director, Steven Jordan - Art Director, Stuart H. Pappe - Associate Producer, Joy Todd - Casting, Pato Guzman - Co-producer, Patrick McCormick - Co-producer, Albert Wolsky - Costume Designer, Paul Mazursky - Director, Stuart H. Pappe - Editor, Marc Shaiman - Composer (Music Score), Fern Buchner - Makeup, Rosemary Zurlo - Makeup, Bob Mills - Makeup, Pato Guzman - Production Designer, Patrick McCormick - Production Designer, Fred Murphy - Cinematographer, Paul Mazursky - Producer, Les Bloom - Set Designer, Paul Mazursky - Screenwriter, Roger Simon - Screenwriter
On their 16th anniversary, during a shopping stroll, the lawyer Nick Fifer (Allen) confesses his wife Deborah (Midler) some affairs. She goes wild and insists on a divorce. After they agreed to the dividing up of their belongings, Deborah confesses having an affair, too. Now Nick gets very upset and wants the divorce for his part, but the last word is not spoken yet.[1]
Before filming for this movie began, Woody Allen had never set foot in a mall.
Paul Mazursky has a small cameo promoting Deborah Fifer's book on TV.
Most of the film's mall scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Queens, New York. It was a two-level set nearly a quarter mile long with over 150 fully stocked stores. Scenes with elevators and escalators where filmed at a real mall in Stamford, Connecticut. Some exterior shots where filmed at the actual Beverly Center Mall in Los Angeles.
During the scene in the movie theater which features Salaam Bombay! (1988), while Woody is standing and blocking people's view of the screen, the movie's subtitle reads, "Get out of my way..."
The title is a play on the film Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973) (Scenes from a Marriage), directed by Ingmar Bergman, a major influence on Woody Allen. Both films deal with a couple who cheat on each other.[2]
