Another Woman (1988 Film)

"Another Woman" is a 1988 Woody Allen film starring Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow and Gene Hackman. The film is a drama that tells the story of a woman learning to have emotions towards others. This film won an award from Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for best female dubbing. IMDB.com users rated this a 7.3 out of 10 possible stars.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094663/awards

Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) rents an apartment, in order to write. Her neighbor is a psychologist and she can hear his patients conversations through the wall. One of the patients, Hope (Mia Farrow), tells about her damaged marriage. Marion has flashbacks about her own marriage and finds herself feeling empathy that she has never felt before. Gradually, Marion learns to care about others' emotions and troubles and learns that she has many of her own issues that were never resolved.

• Gena Rowlands as Marion Post

• Mia Farrow as Hope

• Ian Holm as Ken Post

• Blythe Danner as Lydia

• Gene Hackman as Larry

• Betty Buckley as Kathy

• Martha Plimpton as Laura Post

• John Houseman as Marion's Dad

• Sandy Dennis as Claire

• David Ogden Stiers as Young Marion's Dad

• Philip Bosco as Sam

• Harris Yulin as Paul

"Commercially ignored and critically unheralded even by Allen's own falling standards, [the film is] a sensitive, accomplished, and ambitious picture that deserves notice."—Nick Davis, Nicksflickpicks.com http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/anothwom.html

"A piece of posturing phoniness designed to awe spectators who like their psychodramas third-hand and upscale."—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/another-woman/Film?oid=1072291

"Celebrates the honesty and courage needed by men and women at midlife to face up to the truth of things and then to change."—Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat,Spiritualityandpractice.com http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=2830