Shadows and Fog

Dec 5, 1991

1h 25m

★ 6.7

A delicate comedy-mystery in true Allen fashion.

Overview

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Genres

Comedy

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

Shadows and Fog Trailers

Cast

Kleinman

Woody Allen

Irmy

Mia Farrow

Clown

John Malkovich

Student Jack

John Cusack

Marie

Madonna

Prostitute

Kathy Bates

Prostitute

Jodie Foster

Prostitute

Lily Tomlin

Prostitute

Anne Lange

Magician

Kenneth Mars

Doctor

Donald Pleasence

Alma

Julie Kavner

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown, who lives in a large house teeming with female 'relatives' in negligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny alone meets various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in her.

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