Year:

1983

Running time:

84 minutes

Studio:

MGM

Territory:

Worldwide

Directed by:

Woody Allen

Starring:

Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Martin Chatinover, Stanley Swerdlow, Paul Nevens, Howard Erskine, Ralph Bell, Richard Whiting, Will Hussong, Stephanie Farrow, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Ed Herlihy (voice), Patrick Horgan (narrator).

Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Technically advanced and beautifully shot by Gordon Willis. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick, Stuart Robinson and R. Greenberg Associates.  Worth remembering this appeared a year before Hollywood was wowed by mockumentary This is Spinal Tap.  A gem of a film.