"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people."Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people."Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 7 wins & 19 nominations total
Patrick Horgan
- The Narrator
- (voice)
Will Hussung
- Other Doctor
- (as Will Hussong)
Michael Jeter
- Freshman #2
- (as Michael Jeeter)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaTo create authenticity, the production used actual lenses, cameras, and sound equipment from the 1920s and used the same lighting that would have been done. In addition, Gordon Willis took the exposed negatives to the shower and stomped on them. As a result, even having shot and being acclaimed for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974) before, Willis was greeted with his first Academy Award nomination.
- GoofsThe speaking person in his 60s in one of the modern interviews is subtitled as "Former SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl". If the interviews were conducted in the early 1980s, the person is evidently too young; the real Pohl was born in June 1892, so he would have been in his late 80s/early 90s at the time... if he had not been hanged for war crimes in 1951.
- Quotes
Leonard Zelig: I'm 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life... But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Scene by Scene: Woody Allen (2000)
Featured review
Woody Allen Does the Chameleon
"Zelig" is a very clever movie, the kind you just know Woody Allen is capable of. In this "mockumentary," Woody plays Leonard Zelig, an insecure man who goes to the ultimate length to fit in. Mia Farrow offers the love interest as Dr. Eudora Fletcher. In "Zelig," we get to see Woody spliced into old footage, including the Nazi rally. This came before the effect became used more often, in movies like "Forrest Gump." I see this as a transition in Woody's movies. It comes somewhere between his early funnier movies, like "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run," and his later, more introspective ones, like "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Husbands and Wives." It makes a statement about individuality, and produces laughs in the process.
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- Apr 25, 2003
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- Also known as
- Identity Crisis and Its Relationship to Personality Disorder
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,798,616
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $60,119
- Jul 17, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $11,798,616
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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