Married couple Woody Allen and Elaine May (a pairing that works great) are visited by her family friend's girl Miley Cyrus, who's become a radical, on the run from the police, and starts to eat all of Woody's food, including - amusingly - Chinese takeaway, breakfast sturgeon and navel oranges (she doesn't stop eating). She turns the head of their house guest John Magaro, who's supposed to be marrying Rachel Brosnahan, none other than The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (she'd been in many things before this, including House of Cards). Meanwhile May's becoming radicalised, and it spreads to her book group, with amusing results.
It's great fun. Woody to policemen, "You must be going now, gentlemen. I'm sure the neighborhood is rife with fiends". And later "This is the worst day of my life, and it's still early".
We'd heard Woody with Alec Baldwin in a podcast earlier in the day, and he told us all the only thing he's any good at is comedy writing.
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