Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Directed by Woody Allen
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
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It was a worn out, mockable genre long before Woody Allen’s “Manhattan Murder Mystery” — with Neil Simon serving up “Murder by Death” way back in the ’70s.
Braff is best-known for starring in the TV series Scrubs, but he has a history in film dating back to his appearance in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993 and it seems obvious that Allen left a mark on him, as did Braff's subsequent stints in independent films.
The best ones — the earlier Thin Man movies, Manhattan Murder Mystery, True Lies and The Incredibles, to name some — use intrigue-filled plots essentially as elaborate pretexts to probe and poke at the human relationships at their center.
Woody fans expecting a return to the enjoyable chuckles of Manhattan Murder Mystery and Deconstructing Harry should brace themselves for another indulgent, gossamer thin love story orbiting around current Allen muse Scarlett Johansson.