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Everyone Says I Love You
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | Robert Greenhut |
| Written by | Woody Allen |
| Starring | Julia Roberts Alan Alda Edward Norton Drew Barrymore Gaby Hoffmann Goldie Hawn Natalie Portman Tim Roth Lukas Haas |
| Music by | Dick Hyman |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | December 6, 1996 (USA) |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Language | English |
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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, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman.
Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the film features a rarely used device of having ordinary actors not known for their singing, singing musical numbers. 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, in his own words, it was simply "the best".
The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at the Golden Globes.
- 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.
- Disney Channel regular Christy Carlson Romano can be seen in a cameo as a singing banana during the Halloween sequence.
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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