Woody Allen ditches the laughs in this melodrama starring Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest and Sam Waterston. A quiet Vermont country house becomes the setting for long-awaited revelations and many misguided attempts at romance, in a gut-wrenching, futility-of-the-human-condition kind of way. Elaine Stritch offers a glimmer of humor as Farrow's brash, tactless mother-but her bravado hides a secret capable of unraveling a lifetime of sass.