Everyone Says I Love You

Infobox_Film
name = Everyone Says I Love You


imdb_id = 0116242
writer = Woody Allen
starring = Alan Alda
Woody Allen
Drew Barrymore
Lukas Haas
Goldie Hawn
Gaby Hoffmann
Natasha Lyonne
Edward Norton
Natalie Portman
Julia Roberts
Tim Roth
David Ogden Stiers
director = Woody Allen
producer = Robert Greenhut
editing = Susan E. Morse
distributor = Miramax Films
released = December 6 1996 (USA)
runtime = 101 min.
language = English
music =Dick Hyman
awards =
budget=

"Everyone Says I Love You" (1996) is a musical film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman.

Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the film features a rarely used device of having songs sung by ordinary actors not known for their singing. It was among the more critically successful of Allen's later films. The influential critic Roger Ebert once said that it was his favorite of all Allen's films, calling it simply "the best" (but also claimed that "Match Point" was his best film since "Crimes and Misdemeanors" [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060105%2FREVIEWS%2F60103004%2F1023&AID1=%2F20060105%2FREVIEWS%2F60103004%2F1023&AID2=] ).

The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at the Golden Globes.

Cast

* Edward Norton ... Holden Spence
* Drew Barrymore ... Skylar Dandridge
* Diva Gray ... Nanny
* Ami Almendral ... Nanny
* Madeline Balmaceda ... Nanny
* Vivian Cherry ... Nurse
* Tommie Baxter ... Old Woman
* Jeff DeRocker ... Homeless Man (as Jeff Derocker)
* Cherylyn Jones ... Mannequin
* Tina Paul ... Mannequin/Harry Winston Dancer
* Vikki Schnurr ... Mannequin
* Natasha Lyonne ... Djuna 'D.J.' Berlin
* Kevin Hagan ... Doorman
* Alan Alda ... Bob Dandridge
* Gaby Hoffmann ... Lane Dandridge
* Natalie Portman ... Laura Dandridge
* Lukas Haas ... Scott Dandridge
* Trude Klein ... Frieda
* Goldie Hawn ... Steffi Dandridge
* Itzhak Perlman ... Himself
* Pamela Everett ... Harry Winston Dancer
* Navah Perlman ... Pianist
* Barbara Hollander ... Claire
* John Griffin ... Jeffrey Vandermost
* Julia Roberts ... Von Sidell
* Waltrudis Buck ... Psychiatrist
* Patrick Cranshaw ... Grandpa
* Isiah Whitlock, Jr. ... Cop (as Isiah Whitlock)
* Woody Allen ... Joe Berlin

oundtrack/ song information

Official soundtrack

# "Just You, Just Me" - Edward Norton
# "My Baby Just Cares For Me" - Edward Norton/ Natasha Lyonne
# "Recurrence/ I'm A Dreamer" - Dick Hyman/ Olivia Hayman
# "Makin' Whoopee" - Tirome Jerome
# "Venetian Scenes/ I'm Thru With Love" - Dick Hyman/ Woody Allen
# "All My Life" - Julia Roberts
# "Just You, Just Me" (Salsa Version) - Dick Hyman And The New York Studio Players
# "Cuddle Up A Little Closer" - Billy Crudup/Sanjeev Ramabhadran
# "Looking At You" - Alan Alda
# "Recurrence/ If I Had You" - Dick Hyman/Tim Roth
# "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" - Patrick Crenshaw
# "Chiquita Banana" - Christy Romano
# "Hooray For Captain Spaulding/ Vive Le Capitaine Spaulding" - The Helen Miles Singers
# "I'm Thru With Love" - Goldie Hawn
# "Everyone Says I Love You" - The Helen Miles Singers

ongs seen on film

*All the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that her singing was too awful even for the "realistic singing voice" concept he was going for. Her voice was dubbed by Allen-regular Olivia Hayman.

*The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and was used as a recurring theme song in the Marx Brothers movie "Horse Feathers" (1932). Groucho Marx was highly regarded by Allen. Marx's theme song from "Animal Crackers" (1930) "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" is featured, sung in French by a chorus of Groucho Marxes.

*That song was reworked as "How Do You Do?" for Betty Boop in the 1934 cartoon, "Betty in Blunderland". Mae Questel, the voice of Betty as well as Olive Oyl, played Woody Allen's mother in the 1989 film, "New York Stories".

*"Shall We Dance" by George Gershwin is a somewhat recurring song on the film, appearing more than once with different arrangements.

Box Office

This film was released in North America on 8 December 1996 on 3 screens. Its opening weekend gross was $131,678 ($43,893 per screen). It ended its North American run with $9,714,482.Outside North America, the film earned an addition $16,104,765, boosting its global gross to $25,819,247.

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