Diane Keaton

Timing, they say, is everything, and for clothing store owner Reece McHenry (Sam Shepard) and widowed seamstress Carol Fitzsimmons (Diane Keaton), it's just never right – despite a love that spans decades. While circumstances (including a wife in a coma) conspire to keep Carol and Reece apart, their children (Diane Lane, Robert Patrick) begin an affair of their own – a relationship that provides a disturbing mirror for their parents.

Timing, they say, is everything, and for clothing store owner Reece McHenry (Sam Shepard) and widowed seamstress Carol Fitzsimmons (Diane Keaton), it's just never right – despite a love that spans decades. While circumstances (including a wife in a coma) conspire to keep Carol and Reece apart, their children (Diane Lane, Robert Patrick) begin an affair of their own – a relationship that provides a disturbing mirror for their parents.

Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New York intellectuals and lifestyle-obsessed Rolling Stone writers, but la-di-dah-ing Annie seems different. Along the rocky road of their coupling, Allen/Alvy weigh in on such topics as endless therapy, movies vs. TV, the absurdity of dating rituals, anti-Semitism, drugs, and, in one of the best set pieces, repressed Midwestern WASP insanity vs. crazy Brooklyn Jewish boisterousness. Hailed as Allen's most mature and personal film, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture and also won Oscars for Allen as director and writer and for Keaton as Best Actress; audiences enthusiastically responded to Allen's take on contemporary love and turned Keaton's rumpled menswear into a fashion trend.