Cinema: Manic Disorder

The Volkswagen, its front end crumpled like a concertina, shudders to a top at the curb. Fielding Mellish Woody Allen), in baggy chinos and grimy glasses, is eager for his date with he zaftig coed who showed up at his apartment door one night beseeching lim to sign her petition. Fielding flings open the car door, springs out of the car and plummets straight down into an open manhole.

He surfaces, only to plunge into a pulsatingly neurotic love affair with Nancy the canvasser. She throws him over and he departs in a plane and a funk for the explosive Latin...

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