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• Lead role written for Mia Farrow, but Diane Keaton got the role following Farrow's breakup with the film's director Woody Allen.
  
  
• Carol Lipton, played by Diane Keaton, claims to hate wearing a tie with a skirt. She made that look famous playing Annie Hall in Annie Hall (1977).
  
  
• Nota caratteristica regista: [Woody Allen] [writer] Marcia Fox is a writer.
  
  

• Woody Allen was inspired in part by The Thin Man (1934) series of movies, modeling his main characters after Nick and Nora Charles.
  
  
• Woody Allen planned to make his earlier film Annie Hall (1977) a murder mystery, but cut that subplot out and used the initial murder mystery for this movie.
  
  
• "Manhattan Murder Mystery" was actually the generic working title during production - Allen films usually have generic titles during production like "Woody Allen Fall Project" - but since no new title could be thought of, Woody Allen decided to leave that as the title.
  
  
• The "man in Indiana" who chopped up six people and ate them the Liptons discuss is obviously a reference to Jeffrey Dahmer, with the first New York Post article about him in their paper.
  
  
• The only one of the many movies they made together, in which Woody Allen and Diane Keaton’s characters have a child together.
  
  
• In the scene when Diane Keaton's character sees her "dead" neighbor riding a bus, you can read VERTIGO as bus advertisement. It's one of the many references to Hitchcock's film that appear in the movie.
  
  
• When Larry and Carol go to the theater, the play they are seeing is “Guys and Dolls”.
  
  
• Zach Braff's film debut.
  
  

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