According to IMDb,
Woody Allen was originally going to have a more downbeat ending, but the studios asked him to make it more upbeat.
What a shame. I find the coda unconvincing. I don’t know what exactly Allen had in mind, but I would expect him to reserve the happy ending only for two “losers” of the story, i.e. Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Mickey (Allen).
Never mind that. Hannah and Her Sisters is a great film. Julie Kavner (yes, the voice of Marge Simpson!) is brilliant in a “small” role of Gail, Mickey’s deadpan assistant. The black and white movie Mickey watches in the cinema after his failed suicide is Marx Brothers’ classic, Duck Soup.
yeah, it'd be a lot more Allen to reserve the happy ending to the misfits, but their happy ending looked a lot less realistic than the other two (or more)
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