Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)

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"poignant, penetrating (and) scathingly hilarious" (long beach press telegram), crimes and misdemeanors is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosmos they represent. showcasing allen's brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his 19th movie, crimes and misdemeanors, is "one of the watershed films of his career" (los angeles times).
cliff stern is an idealistic filmmaker...until he's offered a lucrative job shooting a flattering profile of a pompous tv producer. judah rosenthal is the pillar of his community... until he learns that his ex-mistress plans to expose his financial and extramartial misdeeds. as cliff chooses between inegrity and selling out, and judah decides between the counsel of his rabbi and the murderous advice of his mobster brother, each man must examine his own morality, and make an irrevocable decision - that will change everyone's lives forever.