Top cast:Philip Bech,Aage Bjørnbak,Alfred Cohn
Director:Adam Eriksen
Genre:Mystery
Region:Denmark
Year:2008
Storyline:..If I felt that I belonged someplace, you know, then...After giving Jim a sympathetic hearing, Ray suggests hat Jim come in to talk, shoot the breeze, anytime night or day, when he feels like it.This film, sometimes criticized as over-rated, was Spielberg""s biggest blockbuster up to that time.It also popularized Reese""s Pieces candy, Kuwahara bikes, and red hoodies.Observant audiences noted the film""s many merchandising tie-ins and inside "film jokes."While the film was regarded by some as a religious allegory or parable, the film more clearly identifies with many childhood experiences: a troubled, broken family with a single parent and no positive role-models, a lonely, disenfranchised boy lacking emotional fulfillment, a boy""s fierce caring for an equally-lost, stray creature or pet (also ""broken away"" from his family), the need for friendship, he malevolent world of grown-ups and the perils of childhood, miraculous healing, wish-fulfillment, courage, transcendence, and homesickness.Wise-cracking Eve (Eve Arden) has a somnolent white cat named Henry/Henrietta (credited as Whitey the Cat) draped across her shoulders and neck."Sousè is recognized as an easy mark and sucker by fast-talking con salesman J.Frothingham Waterbury (Russell Hicks), who is impeccably dressed in expensive clothes and a white panama hat.WhenManhattanwas released in the US, Allen was 43 and Hemingway was 17.[In real life, there were two other striking parallels:(1) Allen experienced a two-year romantic relationship with actress Stacey Nelkin, whom he first met as a 16 year-old extra on the set ofAnnie Hall (1977).