[PW] ? Woody Allen movie with car wash

[Denise Montgomery]

I've seen every film in which Woody is one of the characters--mostly in
orginal release, so you can tell how far back I go--but haven't seen a few
from the 90s in which he doesn't appear, but I don't think those are
relevant here.

I think the closest thing to what your patron is looking for is Bananas, in
the part of the film where he
works testing products and they have him testing some gadget that will do
all kinds of things for an individual:
feed him, brush his teeth, etc. Of course the machine goes haywire. The
scene is very reminiscent of a similar scene
in Chaplin's Modern Times, where he is testing a gadget that will feed the
worker while he works and it goes haywire.

I don't, however, remember anything about a carwash in this film. And Woody
doesn't drive very often in his films.
The most memorable instance of that is where he wrecks the old convertible
in the parking lot outside the health food restaurant in Annie Hall as a
result of being upset over his breakup with Annie.

If I have forgotten this, I would like to know...sounds hilarious!

                                 Denise Montgomery
                                 Valdosta State University Library

On 1/15/07, Douglas Eric Anderson <andersdo at oplin.org> wrote:
>
> Patron remembers seeing a Woody Allen movie in which he rides through a
> car wash to get his teeth brushed.  She'd like to watch it again.  She
> says the movie was a slapstick comedy, but doesn't remember anything more
> specific than that one scene.  She read the plot descriptions of various
> movies we suggested ("Take the Money and Run" sounded most likely to me),
> but none of them rang any particular bells with her.
>
> She would like to watch JUST this movie; she says it's the only Woody
> Allen movie she liked.  Searches of the plot keywords at IMDB have proved
> fruitless, as have searches of the descriptions of Allen's movies in
> Halliwell's, Maltin's, & Martin & Porter's video guides.
>
> Any Woody Allen buffs among the w0mbats?
>
>
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