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DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 6, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 19 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Orion Pictures Corporation
Studio Orion, Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Cat's Pyjamas
• Identity Crisis and Its Relationship to Personality Disorder
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Genre: Comedy, Role-switching, Society, Period Piece, Satire, Fantasy
Plot: Woody Allen's comic pseudo-documentary about a fictional 1920s media sensation named Leonard Zelig (Allen), a human chameleon who develops the ability to takes on the characteristics of anyone he happens to be with at the time. A gentle jab at America's obsession with fame and celebrity, as well as a parody of the documentary form, ZELIG uses an updated version of the fake newsreel technique from CITIZEN KANE to depict its hero magically at the side of almost every major personality of the early 20th century, from Eugene O'Neill to Adolf Hitler. Enriched by "commentary" from a variety of contemporary intellectuals including Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, and Bruno Bettelheim, the film traces Zelig's bizarre career as a tabloid hero and side-show freak who finds true compassion only in the arms of his psychiatrist, the renowned Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow).
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Woody Allen
Match Point, Everyone Says I Love You, Bullets Over Broadway |
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Woody Allen
Don't Drink the Water, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Colgate Comedy Hour |
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| Mia Farrow
Rosemary's Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Omen |
 | Michael Jeter
The Green Mile, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jurassic Park III |
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