A bitter-sweet treat for fans of jazz guitar and lovers of good movies, this Woody Allen film is enormous fun. Its playfully fictitious biography of 1930s guitarist Emmett Ray (Sean Penn) is warm-hearted, touching and revealing, getting right down to the nitty gritty of Woody's love for jazz. Though Emmett loves music, watching trains, drinking, sex, shooting rats and guitarist Django Reinhardt, the film centres on his hesitant feelings for mute girl Hattie (Samantha Morton). Penn is first rate and Morton magical -- both were deservedly Oscar-nominated for their tour-de-force performances -- and Uma Thurman scores a hit as an upper-crust jazz buff. One of Woody's best.