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Article: `Aphrodite': Mighty Lame
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 27, 1995
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IT USED to be enjoyable to peer into the mind of Woody Allen --
even though his brain, as he pointed out in "Annie Hall," was only
his second-favorite organ. But with his latest movie, "Mighty
Aphrodite," it has become not a little scary in there.
In "Aphrodite," Allen plays Lenny, a neurotic sportswriter married
to overambitious art dealer Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter). Talked by
his wife into adopting a child, Lenny slowly warms to his infant son.
He develops an interest in the kid's mystery background -- in part
because he's disillusioned with Amanda, who's clearly heading towards
a romance with gallery owner Jerry Bender (Peter Weller).
After ransacking files at the adoption office and ...