• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1983-07-15
  • Runtime79 minutes
  • TaglineYou wanted more when it was all over!
  • Revenue11,798,616$
  • GenreComedy
  • Production
    CompaniesOrion Pictures
  • Budget13,500,000$

Movie Overview

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

Casts

Woody Allen

Mia Farrow

John Buckwalter

Howard Erskine

Gale Hansen

Michael Jeter

Peter McRobbie

Richard Litt

Mary Louise Wilson

Paula Trueman

Garrett M. Brown

Marianne Tatum

John Rothman

Deborah Rush

Jeanine Jackson

John Doumanian

Willy Holt

Susan Sontag

Saul Bellow

Irving Howe

Ed Herlihy

Dwight Weist

Vincent Jerman-Jerosa