ANNIE HALL

It's all right for me, it's been terrific,

you know? Better than either one of my

marriages. See, 'cause. . . 'cause there's

just something different about you. I

don't know what it is, but it's great.

ANNIE

(Snickering)

You know I think that if you let me, maybe

I could help you have more fun, you know?

I mean, I know it's hard and ... Yeah.

ALVY

I don't know.

ANNIE

Alvy, what about ... what if we go away

this weekend, and we could-

ALVY

Tsch, why don't we get ... why don't

we get Rob, and the three of us'll

drive into Brooklyn, you know, and

we show you the old neighborhood.

ANNIE

Okay, okay. Okay.

ALVY

That'd be fun for yuh. Don't you think-

ANNIE

Yeah.

Alvy raises up his head and they kiss.

EXT. HIGHWAY

Annie is behind the wheel in her VW, Rob is beside her, Alvy in the back seat

leaning forward so that his head is between them. They're driving down the

highway.

ANNIE

-me, my God, it's a great day!

ALVY

(Interrupting)

Hey, can yuh watch the road? Watch the --

ROB

(Overlapping)

Yeah, watch the road!

ALVY

You'll total the whole car.

ANNIE

(Laughing)

Hey, you know, I never even visited

Brooklyn before.

ROB

I can't wait to see the old neighborhood.

ALVY

Yeah, the neighborhood's gonna be great.

ROB

We can show her the schoolyard.

ALVY

Right. I was a great athlete. Tell

her, Max, I was the best, I was all

schoolyard.

ROB

Yes, I remember.

(Annie laughs)

He was all schoolyard. They threw him

a football once, he tried to dribble it.

ALVY

Yeah, well, I used to lose my glasses a lot.

EXT. AMUSEMENT PARK.

Alvy Annie and Rob move toward the roller coaster on the screen. The area's

deserted. Sea gulls are heard.

ALVY

Oh, look, look, there's that ... that's

-that's my old house. That's where I

used to live.

ANNIE

(Laughing)

Holy cow!

ROB

You're lucky, Max-where I used to live

is now a pornographic equipment store.

Annie laughs.

ALVY

I have some very good memories there.

ROB

What kind of good memories, Max?

Your mother and father fighting all

the time.

ALVY

Yeah, and always over the most

ridiculous things.

FLASHBACK - INT. ALVY'S HOUSE.

Alvy's father sits in his chair. His mother is polishing a door while Alvy

lies on the floor playing. Annie, adult Alvy and Rob quietly walk into the

scene to watch.

ALVY'S FATHER

You fired the cleaning woman?

ALVY'S MOTHER

She was stealing.

ALVY'S FATHER

But she's colored.

ALVY'S MOTHER

SO?

ALVY'S FATHER

So the colored have enough trouble.

ALVY'S MOTHER

She was going through my pocketbook!

ALVY'S FATHER

They're persecuted enough!

ALVY'S MOTHER

Who's persecuting? She stole!

Alvy's father gets up and gets his hard hat. He sits back down and starts

polishing it.

ALVY'S FATHER

All right-so we can afford it.

ALVY'S MOTHER

How can we afford it? On your pay?

What if she steals more?

ALVY'S FATHER

She's a colored woman, from Harlem!

She has no money! She's got a right

to steal from us! After all, who is

she gonna steal from if not us?

ADULT ALVY

(Yelling into the scene)

You're both crazy!

ROB

They can't hear you, Max.

ALVY'S MOTHER

Leo ... I married a fool!

ROB

(Pointing)

Hey, Max! Who's that?

As the three friends watch Alvy's old living room, the scene has suddenly

shifted. A huge crowd stands around the room, laughing, eating, chatting and

vibrating with the turns of the roller-coaster ride.

ALVY

It-it-it's the welcome-home party

in nineteen forty-five, for my cousin

Herbie.

ADULT ALVY

(Pointing)

Look, look, there's-there's that one

over there, that's Joey Nichols, he

was my-

(Young Alvy stands next to Joey

Nichols, who's sitting in one of

the easy chairs. They smile at

each other; people and noise all

around)

-father's friend. He was always bothering

me when I was a kid.

JOEY

Joey Nichols.

(Laughing)

See. Nichols. See, Nichols!

(Joey shows young Alvy his cuff

links and a tie pin, which are

made from nickels, as Alvy stands

with hands on hips, unconcerned.

Joey then slaps his band to his

forehead and puts a nickel on

his forehead)

Yuh see, nickels! You can always

remember my name, just think of Joey

Five Cents.

(Laughing)

That's me. Joey Five Cents!

Joey grabs Alvy's cheeks and pinches them.

YOUNG ALVY

(Turning away)

What an asshole!

A group of women stands near a buffet table eating and listening to Alvy

mother and her sister, Tessie, and a young girl, as the three friends watch.

ALVY'S MOTHER

I was always the sister with good common

sense. But Tessie was always the one

with personality. When she was younger,

they all wanted to marry Tessie.

She touches Tessie's shoulder. Tessie starts to laugh.

ADULT ALVY

(Pointing, to Rob)

Do you believe that, Max? Tessie

Moskowitz had the personality. She's

the life of the ghetto, no doubt.

ALVY'S MOTHER

(To the young girl)

She was once a great beauty.

Tessie nods her head "yes."

ROB

Tessie, they say you were the sister

with personality.

TESSIE

(Addressing the young girl)

I was a great beauty.

ROB

Uh, how did this personality come about?

TESSIE

(Grabbing the young girl's cheek)

I was very charming.

ROB

There were many men interested in you?

TESSIE

(To the young girl)

Oh, I was quite a lively dancer.

Tessie gyrates back and forth imitating a dancer while Annie and the adult

Alvy lean on each other laughing.

ROB

(Laughing)

That's pretty hard to believe.

EXT. STREET.