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Zelig
(USA, 1983) comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Screenplay: Woody Allen
Director of photography: Gordon Willis
Music: Dick Hyman
Casting: Juliet Taylor

STARRING:
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
John Buckwalter
Paul Nevens
Sol Lomita
Mary Louise Wilson
Sharon Ferrol
Richard Litt
Dimitri Vassilopoulos
John Rothman
Stephanie Farrow
Jean Trowbridge
Deborah Rush
Jeanine Jackson
Erma Campbell
Bernie Herold
Susan Sontag
Saul Bellow
Bruno Bettelheim
Marshall Coles Sr.
Jack Cannon
Theodore R. Smits

Made as peudo - documentary and released in 1982 "Zelig" tells a story of chameleon like character, Leonard Zelig (played by Woody Allen), who has the ability to turn in to people who are around him. He wants to fit in so badly that he literally becomes whoever he is with. "Zelig" is also in some way a love story - the nurse (Mia Farrow) begins to catch a glimpse of the "real" Leonard and they begin to spend a lot of time with each other. However soon the situation changes...

Quotes:
I especially want to apologize to the Trochman family in Detroit..... I never delivered a baby before, and I just thought that ice tongs were the way to do it.