‘Mighty Aphrodite’ premieres at Toronto International Film Festival 20 years ago today (Sep 13 1995)


Video: 'Mighty Aphrodite' trailer

(Friday, September 13, 1995, evening EDT)Mighty Aphrodite, a romantic comedy film about a New York sportswriter who discovers his adopted son is a genius and then seeks out the boy’s birth mother: a prostitute, premiered today at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Directed by Woody Allen, the film starred Allen, Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport and F. Murray Abraham.