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Beginning to hug everybody after dreadfully inane film (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annie hall

'film' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'beginning to hug everybody after dreadfully inane' is the wordplay.
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
'everybody' becomes 'all' (all people).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'dreadfully' indicates an anagram (a dreadful spelling).
The first letter of 'hug' is 'h'.
'inane' is an anagram of 'annie'.
'h'+'all'='hall'
'hall' put after 'annie' is 'ANNIE HALL'.

(Other definitions for annie hall that I've seen before include "Film" , "Picture" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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