Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Directed by Woody Allen
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
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The vignettes feel ripped from Mighty Aphrodite as Korda converses with deities like a Greek chorus.
This lean, mean and surprisingly sultry 2005 thriller about fate, luck, greed and guilt was Allen’s best film since 1995’s “Mighty Aphrodite.”
By my estimation, Allen's last fairly good movie was 1995's Mighty Aphrodite, and his last undisputed masterpiece, 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters.
And it’s far and away his sunniest effort since “Mighty Aphrodite.”