Manhattan (1979)

[hbailen]

Woody says this final scene mirrored the final scene of Chaplin's City Lights.

[h2soccergod]

this movie BLEW my mind the first time i saw it. fantastic ending

[kemplerbrave]

Nothing like Woody. Great photography along with great music and of course the film itself. Great!

[tempelton]

Goosebump cinema at it's best!

[seamari1120]

The best ending scene ! 

[domine3]

I typed in--last scene of Manhattan with Woody Allen not expecting so many people have very strong feelings and memories of this. Kudos to Woody and my favorite movie by him. If Mia Farrow didn't know what she was getting herself into, she isn't too bright.

[danaf1110]

I am living in Spain for a year and this movie (this scene in particular) will always remind me of myself and my boyfriend. I am madly in love with everything Woody Allen, and when I made the connection with this movie and my real-life situation it made me really happy/sad. Woody Allen is God, and that is really about it.

[imreallyjin]

i took a class on Woody Allen's films. Wrote my final paper explaining this scene.

As I watched this scene about 4 times, i realized that i was still in love with a girl, who coincidentally attends NYU.

the irony is that i hate NYC and that I LOVE this movie.

thanks Woody Allen!

[MrGakn]

In 1979, this and Apocalypse Now deserved Best Picture. But neither of them won. Something similar happened in 1994, when both Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption deserved the Oscar, but Forrest Gump won it instead. In those years, there actually was a competition, not like today when ok movies compete with mediocre movies in an artificial party.

[kuhnigget]

One of the greatest American movies ever made, and a perfect ending. Woody Allen's masterpiece. Mariel Hemingway's face in that final shot is the definition of sublime.

[XxowendanxX]

Woody Allen's character was such a jerk...and an idiot...he had a good-paying job and he quit it and then he dumped poor Mariel Hemingway broke her heart and then changed his mind after that ditzy chick dumped HIM...Tracy was such a cutie...I even turn off the scene when he dumps her in the soda shop...he's a self-serving, egomaniacal asshole...he had a good thing going and he dumps her for that dumb-ass ditz that stupid freak then comes crawling back to Tracy...shithead...anyway...gr­eat music..

[773SleepyHollow]

@XxowendanxX Great music, great movie.

[122457]

@XxowendanxX You are partially correct, but the reality is much more complex than you portray it.

[XxowendanxX]

@122457 nah...I don't think so.

[122457]

@XxowendanxX Age doesn't guarantee maturity. The actions of the so-called adults in the film are far from mature, and removed from their context could be attributed to high school students. Despite her age, Tracy is much more grounded, and much more mature, than the others. Don't confuse innocence with a lack of maturity.

[XxowendanxX]

@122457 age doesn't guarantee maturity...yeah that's true...the actions of the adults in this movie are stupid, yep...and Tracy is probably smarter and a better person than the rest of those degenerates yeah I can't disagree...

[TheTrapezebird]

I cry every time. No one has come close to making a more sincere love letter to my city then Woody Allen. I love it!!

[MarkGauvreau]

Great until you realize the girl is 16...then kinda sick.

[773SleepyHollow]

@MarkGauvreau 17.

[M00Dswing9]

@MarkGauvreau Hey i know you from the shaving video you posted.

[122457]

@MarkGauvreau It might be, except she was 17 and the most mature character in the film.

[KilldozerRocks]

This is why they should have an oscar for best scene.

[mickbrian1231]

Woody's greatest film . He should have gotten the best actor Oscar for the last scene alone. Easily one of the top 50 American films of  all time..

[tkstudio1120]

the most beautiful ending scene of all films.

[773SleepyHollow]

@tkstudio1120 Woody's smile spoke volumes.

[SimulacraMan]

Apart from Allen's smile, you know what I love most about this film? I love that Allens character was anti-existential throughout the movie until the end, when he took a very beautiful Kierkegaardian "leap of faith".

[dirkbogarde44]

Woody and her ? I don't think so. Lot of wishful thinking in that casting. Great film, none the less.

[uneedtherapy42]

Woody's look after she says "you gotta have a little faith in people" is the BEST facial expression in the history of movies. Period.

[interpol85]

4 people are not waiting 6 months

[RodrigoGonzalez1989]

3 people are Nazis...

[drfink100]

Genius!

[nativebellee]

god woody is too effing adorable

[SamBuddwing]

Call me an idiot for asking, but did the music editor piece together "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Embraceable You" from existing recordings, or did Woody Allen get Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic to play that medley for this film?

[MoogPunch64]

@SamBuddwing he got the philharmonic to play it for him

[HipHopcheerleader]

Woody Allen is a psychopath, crazy, fool who needs to undergo psycho-analysis. He is one of the more honest, funniest artists alive today. He and Larry David are too funny. Watch "Whatever Works" :- ))

[TJames1081]

i'll never get over the perfection of the music in this movie - it is one of my top 10 favorite soundtracks - exuberant, poignant, absolutely gorgeous!

[anexmachina]

HIJOS DE PUT* ME HICIERON VER EL FINAL!

[jenns555]

God Hemingway looks eleven years old.

[TheMightyHartley]

I love his little smile at the end. It's very, I dunno, hopeful.

[misslv80]

@TheMightyHartley I agree. His smile was perfect. :-)

[Greenleafff]

I think this is one of the best movie endings Allen has made.

[NuclearPlanet]

Allen thinks that this his worst movie

[TheDespoticleader]

@NuclearPlanet Really? He mentioned that in an interview? It's difficult for me to say as I love Crimes and Misdemeanours, Stardust Memories, Broadway Danny Rose , Annie Hall yada yada but this certainly is one of my faves!

[MrVielanda]

thank you George for what you've written for us

[EliraSTAR1]

'dont be so matrue' i love that for some reason.

[CanarioAccidental]

This ending makes me cry

[LifePixelated]

@CanarioAccidental oh thanks for the spoiler, now the moment will be ruined for me.i... i, i just know it.

[marksp]

" you've gotta have a little faith in people " that's one of the best phrases that describes Manhattan. I simply love this movie.

[donaperola2]

Can somebody tell me if Woody Allen made a film in Paris where he dances ''Dancing in the Rain" with a woman he felt in love with?

[gratecourt]

The film's "Everyone Says I Love You", the woman is Goldie Hawn and the song is "I'm Thru With Love".

[donaperola2]

thank you, gratecourt!

[marksp]

The one in Paris I think it is called Everyone Says I love You. I love that movie!

[donaperola2]

Thank you too, marksp!  that's right, it's beautiful and that exactly that I was looking for,

[PrinceMushkin]

Hey, the child grows up in the end, meanwhile Woody remains the immature underdeveloped adult.

[cerzule]

One of the greatest, most bittersweet, most memorable endings ever. Period.

[ggfanjase]

The use of Gershwin was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[PrinceMushkin]

You're right, the music is fantastic, it makes the movie!

[Joaopandao]

im sad, i laugh, im sad, i think im sad, i see it again, i forget this poor world, i love it also, well:

MANHATTAN is true cinema. power off

[gzacto]

Very perfect ending.

[PrinceMushkin]

I love how the child dumps him in the end. Great flick.

[neale3]

you are a douche. dont write the ending again

[halsatia]

i was slightly dissatisfied with the ending because I wanted more...but as it was was fine.

[BunnyMan456]

wanting more was the point.

[gazoontight]

Cannot put it into words.

[krane22]

master artist

[AbsoluteShambles]

yes my sweet embracable you

[colchide]

simply wonderful.

[foreveringreen]

This gave me the shivers when I first saw it. Beautiful ending.

[ggfanjase]

Same here.

[interpol85]

amazing, what a beautiful ending.

[Llucygirl2345]

"Not everyone gets corrupted..." Like her grandpapa said,"It's pretty to think so."

[sixgunstrawberry]

This scene has to be one of my most favorite scenes in any film I've ever seen, and same goes for this entire movie. The poster below me said it perfectly. I love this film, and that beautiful ending: how you feel when your in love or how you feel when the other person isn't. How people end up hurting each other through love. "Everyone gets corrupted." ...I can't help but just cry everytime I see it.

[mmartini50]

...it makes you remember what it felt like to be young and earnest and in love, like the other person is the answer to all life's problems. Ideal, youthful times.

[carveido]

embraceable you.

[goldwater1964]

Come on you don't have to.......Go.

[semperfaithful]

A Masterpiece! While this is Woody Allen's least favorite of the movies he has directed, this was the most commercially successful film of his career. He said years later that he was still in disbelief that he "got away with it".

[potgold09]

that Woody Allen is a annoying little weezle

im gona download this movie anyway a give it a chance,,,, i hope he's not dead affter me saying that about him

[mgvasquez38]

For, I don't know, 20 years or so, my best friend and I have disagreed about which is Woody's best movie. I say Annie Hall, he says Manhattan. OK, I give.

[mmartini50]

This was, is, a great great movie. But, in another way, I loved "Love and Death". I couldn't choose between them.

OMG "You have to have a little FAITH in people" (music swells)....OK, it's this one - just.

[crockett007]

this movie not winning the academy award for 1979's best picture was an injustice

[robba18]

@crockett007 you're totally, totally right!

[etcurrie]

@crockett007

I agree one hundred per cent! One of the great all time movies

[TulseLuper]

@crockett007 Either this or Apocalypse Now, yeah. Kramer vs Kramer is good, but come on!

[crystalclear999]

Sheer Genius. Woodys best film. That is saying something.

Great Music, Great Script and Brilliant Acting. You cant take that away from him.

[M00Dswing9]

i love this bittersweet ending. the song definitely captures the emotions in the final scene.

[0inorbit0]

Wonderful

[Tron1276]

"you'll have lunch a lot..."

[mmartini50]

I love his sad little smile at the end!  A great film, I'd forgotten how good...

[MrsKnobby]

Does NOTHING for me.....I prefer Don Carlos' sister

[ShudeBwerkin]

Yeah, it's a tune from "American in Paris." Beautiful.

[alfo85]

"Bisogna avere fiducia avvolte nelle persone"...una frase indimenticabile per un gran bel film,il cui finale ricorda molto quello di "luci della città" di Chaplin.

[Thecrow914]

what is the name of the song playin durin the credits

[walkerc585]

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin

[Tigerlily21]

I love this ending. it's so perfect. I've heard Allen hates this film! I like the line "you have to have a little faith in people". And then the look Woody gives and the music starting. Just a perfect ending.

[Greenleafff]

I totally agree with you. This is a perfect scene!!!

[KernsdeIrkutsk]

Allen is a genius

[alamokid40]

He took that last shot at 5:00 am on the 59th Street Bridge-he said recently he never dreamed that that shot would be so iconic.

[gabefung]

"You have to have a little faith in people." I Love that.

[TinyTony80]

Perfection.

[weikko79]

I wonder if this ending was Woody's take on "City Lights"? Great ending anyway.

[bucketofwater]

The moment when Woody breaks into a smile just as the violin solo finishes is magical and my favourite moment in cinema.

[aintshesweet18]

*tear*