Woody Allen’s ‘Mighty Aphrodite’ premieres at Venice Film Festival 30 years ago today (Sep 1 1995)


Video: 'Mighty Aphrodite' trailer

(Friday, September 1, 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 tonight at the Venice Film Festival.

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