Melinda and Melinda
“Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.”
2004 · 1 h 39 min
Cast
Will Ferrell 
Vinessa Shaw 
Chiwetel Ejiofor 
Wallace Shawn Neil Pepe 
Stephanie Roth Haberle
Credits
Written by: 
Woody Allen
Plot
At dinner, friends tell two parallel stories about Melinda, one comic and one tragic, to test whether comedy and tragedy can be separated.
Sinekatalog’s take
Woody Allen's two-tone experiment is clever in idea, uneven in execution, with a nice Radha Mitchell.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (34,289 votes)
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