曼哈顿

40岁的艾萨克·戴维斯（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）在写作上不算成功，在感情上更是一团糟。一方面，为了另一个女人而离开他的前妻吉尔（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）打算出版一本有关他们私密婚姻生活的书，另一方面，17岁的女孩翠西（玛瑞儿·海明 威 Mariel Hemingway 饰）对于这段他并不打算认真经营的感情投入了越来越多的热情。在这个节骨眼上，好友耶尔（迈克尔·莫菲Michael Murphy饰）的情人玛丽（黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）闯入了戴维斯的视线，风趣的谈吐，投机的话题，一切的一切都为两人的感情擦出了火花。3个男人，3个女人，在曼哈顿这个繁华又孤单的城市，这群成年人究竟该用何种方式来道德并公正的解决他们的感情问题呢？ 　　本片荣获1980年英国电影学院最佳影片奖。Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events after they happen, no matter what those events are.