Woody Allen's charming valentine to memories of radio has aged well, for the most part. The scenes of him and his mates perving on a naked lady maybe not so much. Production values are a dream - it probably cost too much money (did they need to cut away to the scenes of digging up the girl).
Plenty of surprises... you think a bad date for Diane Wiest will end with a rape attempt but it's ended via Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast, a girl you think will be rescued turns up dead, Seth Green spots a sub but decides not to tell anyone.
I wish Allen had gone back to radio for stories... he could've done one based in the industry for instance. Lovely wistful quality. Mia Farrow is the closest thing to a star but Diane Keaton makes a cameo and there's nice turns from people like Josh Mostel, Danny Aiello, Julie Kavner and so on.
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