Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 27, 1995

Running Time: 93 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: F Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom, Helena Bonham Carter, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, David Ogden Stiers, Jack Warden, Peter Weller

director: Woody Allen

An upscale New York couple decide to adopt a child. Years later, after he proves to be extremely intelligent, the adoptive father sets out to find the biological mother who, he believes, must be a genius. Instead, he finds a young woman who is a prostitute with a scarred past.

December 8, 2000

Woody Allen plays a married man and adoptive father who enjoys unprotected sex with a twenty-something call girl in Mighty Aphrodite. The film is a brashly comic provocation, a dare disguised as a doodle. Scandal involving Soon-Yi, Mia Farrow and daughter Dylan has made Allen the O.J. Simpson of cinema -- off the hook in court but guilty to much of his audience. Variety bashed the aging auteur (he'll be 60 on Dec. 1) for kissing his young co-star in Aphrodite. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd…