 Melinda and Melinda
Starring: Chjwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet
Directed by: Woody Allen
Screenplay by: Woody Allen
Release Date: March 18th, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for adult situations involving sexuality, and substance material.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
 Domestic: $3,826,280 (19.0%)
Foreign: $16,259,545 (81.0%)
Total: $20,085,825 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.
Melinda and Melinda combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of crises that give great reign to the funny and serious talents of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny and Wallace Shawn.
All the usual Allen areas are explained -- the fragility of love, marital infidelity, sophisticated romance, the inability to communicate. As a character in the movie puts it, “He's despondent, he's desperate, he's suicidal. All the comic elements are in place.”
By his own admission, writer/director Woody Allen has far more ideas for movies than he will ever have time to put on film. The concept for Melinda and Melinda was one of many he spawned over the past several years, but it was one of the most intriguing.
In this film, Allen, one of the most respected filmmakers on the international film landscape for over three decades, explores some of his most beloved terrain: personal struggles with morality, identity, intimacy, jealousy and the vagaries of romantic love.
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