The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan and other parts of New York City accompanied by George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with Isaac Mortimer Davis (Woody Allen) narrating drafts of an introduction to a book about a man who loves the city.

• Manhattan
• Anne Byrne
• Woody Allen
• Diane Keaton
• Michael Murphy
• Mariel Hemingway
• Meryl Streep