Scenes from a Mall

Scenes from a Mall

1991 · 89 min · EN · R · 5.2 (66 votes)
Dir. Paul Mazursky · Starring Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Bill Irwin, Daren Firestone, Rebecca Nickels, Paul Mazursky · Music Marc Shaiman

On their 16th wedding anniversary, Deborah and Nick decided to work out all their differences... in public.

Comedy

A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.

VIBE

This film feels like eavesdropping on a marriage's slow, uncomfortable unraveling. It's a quiet, observational comedy of errors, capturing the mundane anxieties and unspoken resentments that bubble up over years of togetherness.

awkwardcringe-inducingmelancholicwrysteady Woody Allen-esquecharacter studydialogue-drivenmarriagedisillusionmentmidlife crisiscommunication
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