Allen's 1983 mock-doc sees him playing human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a nobody turned jazz-age celebrity able♔ to blend in with gangsters, fur trappers and beyond.

Sending up personality cults and conformity, Allen presages Forrest Gump w🌌ith more wit and less fuss as he integrates Zelig into archive footage featuring Babe Ruth, Hitler, etc.

Zeli🦄g’s relationship with shrink Mia Farrow and scandalous downfall (too many marriages and improvised surgical procedures) add narrative swerves, but it’s Allen’s smarts that elev﷽ate this slender conceit to heights of zinger-flinging bliss.