A couple chooses to adopt a baby right from the start, intending to avoid disruption to their lives; however, after five years, their marriage has noticeably lost its spark. The husband, a sports writer, finds himself unenthusiastic about his wife’s (Helena Bonham Carter) artistic acquaintances, stemming from her all-encompassing career at her gallery. When their adopted son, “Max,” begins demonstrating signs of exceptional talent, the father "Lenny" (Woody Allen) feels compelled to search for the birth mother. He's disheartened to find that it’s “Linda” (Mira Sorvino), a sex worker with theatrical ambitions and lacking in intelligence. Feeling he can assist her in turning her life around, he attempts to arrange a match between her and one of his friends, hoping she will better fit his idea of what a parent should be. Throughout this process, "Lenny" – along with the audience – receives guidance and commentary from a group of performers acting as a Greek chorus, offering wise words and predictions that he consistently ignores; consequently, events unfold in a manner that occasionally evokes echoes of Aeschylus’s work. Allen's persona remains consistent, but Sorvino provides a strong performance as an earnest woman with a profound sense of integrity. The film naturally includes the expected age difference between the leads, and between him and his wife (who is thirty years younger), which further intensifies the dissatisfaction felt by a man seemingly determined to remain perpetually unhappy – a characteristic common to many Woody Allen films. While there's some humor derived from the writing’s observations, the film largely relies on the comedic abilities of the performers delivering their warnings of both happiness and sorrow, alongside Sorvino’s captivating portrayal, to succeed. And it does.

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