Editing Everyone Says I Love You

{{Short description|1996 film by Woody Allen}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Everyone Says I Love You
| image          = Everyone Says I Love You Poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Woody Allen]]
| writer         = Woody Allen
| producer       = [[Robert Greenhut]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|<!--Per poster.-->
* [[Alan Alda]]
* Woody Allen
* [[Drew Barrymore]]
* [[Lukas Haas]]
* [[Goldie Hawn]]
* [[Gaby Hoffmann]]
* [[Natasha Lyonne]]
* [[Edward Norton]]
* [[Natalie Portman]]
* [[Julia Roberts]]
* [[Tim Roth]]
* [[David Ogden Stiers]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Carlo Di Palma]]
| editing        = [[Susan E. Morse]]
| music          = [[Dick Hyman]]
| distributor    = [[Miramax Films]]
| released       = {{Film date|1996|12|08}}
| runtime        = 101 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 100:54--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/everyone-says-i-love-you-1970-1 | title=''Everyone Says I Love You'' (12) | publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=January 21, 1997 | access-date=November 5, 2015 | archive-date=March 6, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306000414/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/everyone-says-i-love-you-1970-1}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $20 million<ref name="Box" />
| gross          = $9.8 million<ref name="Box">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0116242/ |title=''Everyone Says I Love You'' (1996) |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 16, 2024}}</ref>
}}
'''''Everyone Says I Love You''''' is a 1996 American [[Musical film|musical]] [[romantic comedy]] film written and directed by [[Woody Allen]]. It stars [[Alan Alda]], Allen, [[Drew Barrymore]], [[Lukas Haas]], [[Goldie Hawn]], [[Gaby Hoffmann]], [[Natasha Lyonne]], [[Edward Norton]], [[Natalie Portman]], [[Julia Roberts]], [[Tim Roth]], and [[David Ogden Stiers]]. Set in New York City, Venice, and Paris, it features singing by actors not usually known for musical roles. The film was a [[box-office bomb]], but is among the more critically successful of Allen's films, with ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' critic [[Roger Ebert]] even ranking it as one of Allen's best.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everyone-says-i-love-you-1997 |title=Everyone Says I Love You |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=January 17, 1997 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date=November 1, 2017 |via=[[RogerEbert.com]] |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107023420/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everyone-says-i-love-you-1997 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The emotions of an extended upper-class family in Manhattan are followed in song in New York City, Paris, and Venice. Many characters act, interact, and sing in each city. They include young lovers Holden and Skylar, Skylar's parents Bob and Steffi, Steffi's ex-husband Joe, Steffi and Joe's daughter Djuna "DJ", a lady Joe meets named Von, and recently-released prison inmate Charles Ferry.

==Plot==
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   | image1    =Alan Alda by Bridget Laudien (cropped).jpg
   | caption1  =[[Alan Alda]] plays Bob Dandridge, one of a pair of liberal Democratic lawyers who have a blended family from previous marriages.
| image2    =Woody Allen at the premiere of Whatever Works.jpg
   | caption2  =[[Woody Allen]] plays Joe Berlin, Steffi Dandridge’s ex-husband, who coached by his daughter DJ, fakes interest in art, music, travel, African daisies, and buys a Parisian garret to win Von.
   | image3    =Drew Barrymore 1997.jpg
   | caption3  =[[Drew Barrymore]] plays Skylar Dandridge, who wants a "take-charge" kind of guy; initially alarmed by ex-con Charles's aggressive passes, she falls under his spell.
   | image4    =Lukas Haas by David Shankbone cropped.jpg
   | caption4  =[[Lukas Haas]] plays Scott Dandridge, Liberal Bob and Steffi’s Republican son, who wants criminals taken off the street and disapproves of Steffi's work rehabilitating felons.
   | image5    =Goldie Hawn 2011.jpg
   | caption5  = [[Goldie Hawn]] plays Steffi Dandridge, who volunteers with the American Civil Liberties Union and brings ex-con Charles, her latest cause, to her daughter’s engagement party.
   | image6    =Natasha Lyonne 2014 (cropped).jpg
   | caption6  = [[Natasha Lyonne]] plays Djuna "D.J." Berlin, who listens through a hole in the wall on Von’s therapy sessions, then coaches her father, Joe Berlin on how to woo her.
   | image7    =Edward Norton 2012.jpg
   | caption7  =[[Edward Norton]] plays Holden Spence, whose romantic gesture, at DJ’s urging, backfires when Skylar swallows the ring he slipped into her parfait.
   | image8    =Natalie Portman (48470988352) (cropped).jpg
   | caption8  =[[Natalie Portman]] plays Laura Dandridge, who competes with sister Lane for the handsome heir to the Vandermost millions and is heartbroken he falls for Lane.
   | image9    =Julia Roberts Duchenne Smile.jpg
   | caption9  =[[Julia Roberts]] plays Von Sidell, an art historian, who relates to her therapist that she longs for romance and discusses her fantasies, which eavesdropper DJ passes on to her father.
   | image10    =Tim Roth by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
   | caption10  =[[Tim Roth]] plays Charles Ferry, one of Steffi Dandridge’s liberal causes, who scares guests at Skylar’s engagement party with accounts of prison stabbings, then seduces Skylar.
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Skylar and Holden are an upper-class [[Manhattan]] couple ("[[Just You, Just Me]]"). Holden enlists DJ, Skylar's younger sister, to help him choose an expensive diamond engagement ring ("[[My Baby Just Cares for Me]]"). Skylar wants a "take-charge" kind of guy ("[[I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All]]"). Holden’s romantic gesture, at DJ’s urging, backfires when Skylar swallows the ring he slipped into her [[parfait]], resulting in a trip to the ER ("[[Makin' Whoopee]]").

Bob and Steffi Dandridge, liberal [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] lawyers ("[[Cole Porter|Looking at You]]") who have a [[Stepfamily|blended family]] from previous marriages, are aghast at having a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] son, Scott, who wants criminals taken off the street and disapproves of Steffi's work rehabilitating felons. Steffi, who volunteers with the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] ("He was an abused child who made one mistake."), brings to the engagement party one of her causes, Charles, who scares guests with accounts of prison stabbings. Initially alarmed by Charles's aggressive passes ("[[If I Had You (1928 song)|If I Had You]]"), Skylar eventually falls under his spell ("I've never been kissed by a sociopath before."), breaking up with Holden.

Steffi and Bob are friendly with Steffi's [[Neuroticism|neurotic]] ex-husband Joe, who lives in Paris, and has just broken up with his latest drug-using [[Hypersexuality|nymphomaniac]] girlfriend ("I'm through with Love"). Steffi wants to fix Joe up with a more suitable woman, but Joe is still hung up on Steffi.

On vacation with her father Joe in [[Venice]], Italy, DJ and her friend, whose mother is a psychologist, listen through a hole in the wall on the clientele's [[therapy]] sessions. Von, an [[Art history|art historian]], relates to the therapist that she is discontented with her husband, longing for romance and discussing her fantasies. DJ suggests Joe "run into" Von jogging and then coaches Joe on how to woo her by faking interest in art, music, travel, African daisies, and a hastily bought Parisian garret, and by setting up "coincidental" meetings at a museum and a concert. Convinced she has met the man of her dreams ("All My Life"), the unsuspecting Von leaves her husband for Joe.

DJ falls for a [[Gondola|gondolier]] and plans to drop out of college to marry him until she meets her next "flame": a student at [[Columbia University]] ("[[Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine]]"). She then falls for a [[Rapping|rapper]] in New York, and finally falls in love with a dashing [[Paris]]ian.

Competitive sisters Lane and Laura, DJ's half-sisters, both have crushes on a local lad, heir to the Vandermost millions, but 14-year-old Laura is heartbroken when Vandermost falls for Lane ("[[I'm Thru with Love|I'm Through with Love]]").

Grandpa, an 88-year-old with [[dementia]], occasionally wanders off, corralled by Freda the maid, who DJ jokingly claims was [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s maid at [[Berchtesgaden]]. ("It's Bavarian pasta, it doesn’t need any sauce; Italian pasta needs sauce. The Italians were weak!") At foot fetishist Grandpa’s funeral, the corpses at the chapel sing and dance to "[[Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)]]".

Skylar encourages ex-con Charles to study law, but he has other plans, involving the unwitting Skylar in a grocery store robbery with his gang. Begging to be let out of the getaway car, Skylar successfully escapes and eventually reconciles at a Halloween Party with a forgiving Holden ("[[Chiquita Banana]]"). This time Skylar swallows the engagement ring Holden has slipped in a box of [[Cracker Jack]].

Scott is diagnosed with a [[brain tumor]] and has successful surgery. He immediately resigns from the [[Young Republicans|Young Republicans Club]] and starts to espouse [[Liberalism|left-wing causes]].

Having lived out all her fantasies with "the man of her dreams", Von no longer yearns for them; she leaves Joe to return to her husband.

The family goes to Paris for Christmas and attends a [[Groucho Marx]]-themed New Years party ("[[Hooray for Captain Spaulding]]"). When Bob comes down with a cold, Steffi reunites with Joe and they reminisce, acknowledging that although their marriage didn't work out ("I'm Through With Love"), they still have feelings for each other. Although Steffi loves Bob "wholeheartedly", she and Joe kiss while accepting the boundaries of their mutually supportive relationship. Steffi encourages Joe to find someone who will make him happy. The family dances to "Everyone Says I love You" as DJ falls for a dance partner in a [[Harpo Marx]] costume.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Alan Alda]] as Bob Dandridge
*[[Woody Allen]] as Joe Berlin
*[[Drew Barrymore]] as Skylar Dandridge (singing voice dubbed by Olivia Hayman) 
*[[Lukas Haas]] as Scott Dandridge
*[[Goldie Hawn]] as Steffi Dandridge
*[[Gaby Hoffmann]] as Lane Dandridge
*[[Natasha Lyonne]] as Djuna "D.J." Berlin
*[[Edward Norton]] as Holden Spence
*[[Natalie Portman]] as Laura Dandridge
*[[Julia Roberts]] as Von Sidell
*[[Tim Roth]] as Charles Ferry
*[[David Ogden Stiers]] as Arnold Spence
*[[Itzhak Perlman]] as himself
*[[Edward Hibbert]] as a Harry Winston Salesman
*[[Patrick Cranshaw]] as Grandpa
*[[Billy Crudup]] as Ken Risley
*[[Robert Knepper]] as Greg
*[[Scotty Bloch]] as Lynn Spence
*[[Isiah Whitlock Jr.]] as Cop
*[[Kevin Hagan]] as Doorman
*[[Navah Perlman]] as Pianist
*Waltrudis Buck as Psychiatrist
*[[Christy Carlson Romano]] as a Trick or Treat Child
*[[Tim Jerome]] as X-ray Room Doctor
*[[Arlene Martell]] as a Nurse
*Singers: Helen Miles, Arlene Martell, Emily Bindiger, Cindy Cobitt, Al Dana, Kevin DeSimone, [[Paul Evans (musician)|Paul Evans]], Chrissy Faith, Jeff Lyons, Michael Mark, Jenna Miles, Robert Ragaini, Lenny Roberts, [[Annette Sanders]], Terry Textor, Vaneese Thomas and Ashley H. Wilkinson
}}

==Music==
The film uses classic songs for each scene, in some cases with unexpected dance routines. 
# "[[Just You, Just Me]]" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) — Edward Norton
# "[[My Baby Just Cares for Me]]" ([[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]], [[Gus Kahn]]) — Edward Norton/Natasha Lyonne
# "Recurrence/[[I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All]]" ([[Ray Henderson]], [[Lew Brown]], [[B.G. DeSylva]]) — Dick Hyman/Olivia Hayman
# "[[Makin' Whoopee]]" (Donaldson, Kahn) — Tim Jerome
# "Venetian Scenes/I'm Through with Love" (Kahn, [[Matty Malneck|Matt Malneck]], [[Fud Livingston]]) — Dick Hyman/Woody Allen
# "All My Life" ([[Sam H. Stept|Sam Stept]], [[Sidney D. Mitchell|Sidney Mitchell]]) — Julia Roberts
# "[[Just You, Just Me]]" (Salsa Version) (Greer, Klages) — Dick Hyman and the New York Studio Players
# "[[Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine|Cuddle Up a Little Closer]]" (Karl Hoschna, [[Otto Harbach]]) — Billy Crudup/Sanjeev Ramabhadran
# "Looking at You" ([[Cole Porter]]) — Alan Alda
# "Recurrence/[[If I Had You (1928 song)|If I Had You]]" ([[Ted Shapiro]], [[Irving King|Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly]]) — Dick Hyman/Tim Roth
# "[[Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)]]" ([[Carl Sigman]], [[Herb Magidson]]) — Patrick Crenshaw
# "[[Chiquita Banana]]" (Leonard McKenzie, Garth Montgomery, William Wirges) — [[Christy Carlson Romano]]
# "[[Hooray for Captain Spaulding]]/Vive Le Capitaine Spaulding" ([[Bert Kalmar]], [[Harry Ruby]], Philippe Videcoq) — The Helen Miles Singers
# "I'm Through with Love" (Kahn, Malneck, Livingston) — Goldie Hawn/Edward Norton
# "Everyone Says I Love You" (Kalmar, Ruby) — The Helen Miles Singers<ref>{{cite book |last=Harvey |first=Adam |year=2007 |title=The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969–2005 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |page=54 |isbn=978-0-7864-2968-4}}</ref>

Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: [[Goldie Hawn]], who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and [[Drew Barrymore]], who convinced Allen that her singing was too awful even for the "realistic singing voice" concept he was going for. Her voice was dubbed by Olivia Hayman.

The title song was written by [[Bert Kalmar]] and [[Harry Ruby]] and was used as a recurring theme song in the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''[[Horse Feathers]]'' (1932). Allen is a well-known [[Groucho Marx]] fan. Marx's theme song from ''[[Animal Crackers (1930 film)|Animal Crackers]]'' (1930) "[[Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx)|Hooray for Captain Spaulding]]" is featured, sung in [[French language|French]] by a chorus of Groucho Marxes. The songs, film score, and subsequent album were recorded, mixed, and co-produced by Dick Hyman and Roy Yokelson.

==Reception==
===Box office===
On its opening weekend, the film grossed $131,678 from three theaters, with an average of $43,892 per theater.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1750107649/weekend/ |title=Everyone Says I Love You (1996) – Domestic Weekend |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 6, 2024}}</ref> It ended its run with $9.8 million.<ref name="Box"/>

===Critical response===
The film was well received. On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A likable, infectious musical, Woody Allen's ''Everyone Says I Love You'' is sometimes uneven but always toe-tapping and fun."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everyone_says_i_love_you | title=Everyone Says I Love You | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | access-date=January 20, 2022}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] wrote a strongly positive review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', describing the film as "a delightful and witty compendium of [Allen's] favorite things."<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/movies/when-everyone-sings-just-for-the-joy-of-it.html |title=When Everyone Sings, Just for the Joy of It |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 6, 1996 |access-date=June 16, 2024 |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526161800/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/movies/when-everyone-sings-just-for-the-joy-of-it.html |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Among the film's strongest detractors was [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]], who described it as "creepy" and claimed, "in this characterless world of [[Manhattan]]-[[Venice]]-[[Paris]], where love consists only of self-validation, and political convictions of any kind are attributable to either hypocrisy or a brain condition, the me-first [[nihilism]] of Allen's frightened worldview is finally given full exposure, and it's a grisly thing to behold."<ref>{{cite news |last=Miner |first=Michael |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/everyone-says-i-love-you/Film?oid=1072583 |title=''Everyone Says I Love You'' |newspaper=[[Chicago Reader]] |date=January 13, 1997 |access-date=May 1, 2011 |archive-date=June 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609023107/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/everyone-says-i-love-you/Film?oid=1072583 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Accolades===
The film was nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] at the [[54th Golden Globe Awards]].

==References==
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==External links==
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