Love and Death1975

I don't know how to edit the Movie Summary, but it is the wrong one for this movie. If the editor in chief would care to change it, it might improve this entry 100%.

Instead it might say, " This is Leo Tolstoy's grand epic "War and Peace" made into a comedy only Woody Allen could deliver, both directing and starring in it. There are moments of artsy satire, aimed at audiences familiar with the close-up experiences of being a grad student at any liberal arts college, reading literature just like this novel, and the experience of being so submerged in that collegiate environment that everything starts to sound like it came from that genre of Russian literature. The film is also liberally sprinkled with plenty of downright goofy scenes meant to keep the cinemas rolling with chuckles. Scenes like a battle of the Franco- Russian war complete with pompommed cheerleaders and hot dog vendors hawking through the ranks. Allen even includes some cameos of himself making prankish faces with his tongue out. But this is no Animal House or Cannonball Run. There is enough of the flavor of the original Russian saga that it remains a priceless tribute to that Tolstoyan tome."