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Another Woman

By Woody Allen - Film

FilmScreen

Roles

  • Hope - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Female

About this piece

A woman narrates her scary dream to her psychiatrist

Summary

Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is an accomplished philosophy professor who decides to take some time off to write a novel. She rents an apartment that is next door to a psychiatrist's office. As the walls are very thin, she can hear everything they say and soon becomes drawn to the stories that one of the patients, Hope (Mia Farrow), tells her psychiatrist. This is one of the stories Hope tells her psychiatrist of a panic attack she had in the middle of the night as she thought about her life...

Tone

CryingNeuroticDescriptiveDepressedLamentingFrustratedInsecureAfraidReminiscing life story/Telling a storyPondering/Pensive

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