Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

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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…