It stars Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, and Sam Waterston.
Renata, the eldest daughter, is a poet whose husband Frederick, a struggling writer, feels eclipsed by her success.
Arthur returns from a trip to Greece with Pearl, a high-spirited and more "normal" woman, whom he intends to marry.
His daughters are disturbed that Arthur would disregard Eve's suicide attempt and find another woman, to whom Joey refers as a "vulgarian".
Arthur and Pearl marry at the family's Long Island beach house, with Renata, Joey, and Flyn in attendance.
In the middle of the night, Frederick drunkenly attempts to rape Flyn in the garage, but she manages to escape.
[5] weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
[6] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "beautiful" and complimented Gordon Willis on his "use of cool colors that suggest civilization's precarious control of natural forces", but noted:[7] My problem with Interiors is that although I admire the performances and isolated moments ...
It's almost as if Mr. Allen had set out to make someone else's movie, say a film in the manner of Mr. Bergman, without having any grasp of the material, or first-hand, gut feelings about the characters.
I thoroughly enjoyed the second half, in which the film's only bright, lively character (Maureen Stapleton as the father's new, romantic interest) makes her entrance.
At the end, I left the theater thinking that the picture was painful and didn't have much applicability to my life, but that I would always remember its characters more for the superb acting than for Allen's script.
[13] In 2016, Interiors was listed as Allen's 11th best film in an article by The Daily Telegraph critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey, who wrote that "the emotional effort being expended is cumulatively hard to shrug off" and praised Stapleton's performance.