Zelig (1983)

Directed by Woody Allen · Comedy

Starring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick Horgan, John Buckwalter, Marvin Chatinover, Stanley Swerdlow, Paul Nevens, Elizabeth Kaitan, Howard Erskine, Richard Whiting, Gale Hansen, Michael Jeter, Peter McRobbie, Mary Louise Wilson, Alice Beardsley, Paula Trueman, Garrett M. Brown, Richard Litt, John Rothman, Deborah Rush, Stanley Simmonds, Robert Berger, Jeanine Jackson, John Doumanian, Willy Holt, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Ed Herlihy, Dwight Weist, Arthur Anderson, Mae Questel, Bubba Dean Rambo, Kim Johnston Ulrich

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Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

My review · Reviewed 07/17/2010

The concept was simple - the movie was a 20's-style black-and-white film about a man that morphs into whoever he was with. Had it been a 15 minute short it might have worked. As it was, it was an 84 minute film that played like it was 180 minutes long. There were some funny moments but overall it just didn't work for me.