Search - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor Movie Release: 1982 DVD Release: 11/06/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 28 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Comedy, Sex Comedy, Reunion Films, Ensemble Film

Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period roundelay, based upon Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Allen plays Andrew, a Wall Street broker and eccentric inventor who is having frigidity problems with his wife Adrian (Mary Steenburgen). Adrian and Andrew are the hosts, at their summer house in the country, of a wedding party for Ariel (Mia Farrow) and Leopold (Jose Ferrer), a famed academic who is Andrew's cousin. Over the weekend, another couple converges at Andrew's summer home -- the sly, lady-killer of a doctor Maxwell (Tony Roberts) and his date, the deliciously ditzy nurse Dulcy (Julie Hagerty). Through the course of the weekend, sexual partners are exchanged and magical fairy tale moments are shared. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Woody Allen - Andrew
Mia Farrow - Ariel
José Ferrer - Leopold
Julie Hagerty - Dulcy
Tony Roberts - Maxwell

Woody Allen directed this comedy of romantic misunderstanding and misadventures, which has been given an efficient presentation on DVD. The images have been transferred using the letterboxed format in the original 1.85:1 aspect ratio (the disc is also enhanced for anamorphic playback on widescreen monitors), while the audio is in Dolby Digital Mono. The disc has been encoded with English, Spanish, and French subtitles, and also features closed captioning. The only additional bonus feature is the film's original theatrical trailer. Like most of MGM/UA's DVD releases of Allen's work, there isn't much in the way of extras, but the presentation of the material is crisp and clean and will please anyone who enjoys the film. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide