LOVE STINGS.
Insurance investigator C.W. Briggs (Woody Allen) is hypnotized one evening; whenever he hears the word āConstantinopleā he turns into a jewel thief.Ā Pleasurable to a certain extent, this is nevertheless one of the slowest comedies Allen has made. His love of the 1940s shows in the meticulous choices of clothes, surroundings and music and thereās a playfulness to the fact that Allen knows very well that his story is a silly one. But the comedy, the banter between him and Helen Hunt, should be dynamite and it isnāt.
2001-U.S. 102 min. Color.Ā Written and directed byĀ Woody Allen.Ā Cast:Ā Woody Allen (C.W. Briggs), Helen Hunt (Betty Ann Fitzgerald), Dan Aykroyd (Chris Magruder), Charlize Theron, David Ogden Stiers, Elizabeth Berkley.