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Product Dimensions : 0.57 x 5.33 x 7.55 inches; 4 Ounces
Media Format : NTSC
Actors : Johansson, Scarlett, Goode, Matthew
ASIN : 1417082658

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Booklover!

"An American Tragedy".... in Britain

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015

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Ripped right from the pages of Theodore Dreiser's classic novel "An American Tragedy," Woody Allen retells the tale of a poser trying to walk the line between lust and love of money. Johansson and Rhys Myers capture the sexy heat of two down on their luck gold diggers who finally strike it rich in a taboo affair. Johansson's Nola Rice is engaged to enormously wealthy Tom Hewitt and Myers Chris Wilton is busy cozying up to Hewitt's naive, rather gawky sister, Chloe. Both are entranced by the siblings' money. Sparks fly when Rice and Wilton realize they are two of a kind. As their affair builds to a crescendo Wilton suddenly realizes he loves the good life, if not his good wife. Allen pulls all stops as he builds tension and suspense.

Both Match Point and Allens later movie, Blue Jasmine deal with smart, people, who manage to attain the lives they dream of through deception and lies, when the the truth would serve them best. Others have commented on how they were happy to see Woody Allen phase himself and his neurosis out of his movies, however, I see this Match Point and Blue Jasmine as Allen dealing with other aspects of his personality and his life....

Riveting performances, a great script and fabulous scenery make this movie a very short two hours.

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Robert Ropars

Dark thriller with plenty of twists and turns - most un-Woody Allen of his films

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014

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Harkening back to his earlier "Crimes and Misdemeanors" without a foil for Woody Allen himself (Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is definitely not playing a caricature of Allen in any way). This is a story about a former amateur tennis player name
Chris Wilton who almost made it big, has now moved to London to be a teacher and ends up at a very exclusive club. He soon gives lessons to a wealthy guy named Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode) and says all the right things (dropping comments about opera) to get invited to a family outing. There he meets Tom's sister Chloe Hewett Wilton (the always excellent Emily Mortimer) and she's immediately smitten. As are their parents Alec (Brian Cox) and Eleanor (Penelope Wilton) as Chris continues to strategically drop things into conversation (in an early scene we see Chris reading, ironically, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky with a cheat guide and as Chloe whines to daddy Alec about whether he could help Chris get a leg up in the world, the father notes he and Chris had a really interesting conversation about Dostoyevsky). Chris is smart, savvy and step-by-step working his way into this family and their 1% world of power and wealth and boredom.

And then he meets Tom's American fiance Nola (Scarlett Johansson) and becomes obsessed. The film covers most of the "7 deadly sins" as each character is not necessarily "good" and all trying to do whatever they can to get what they want. It is taught, sexy, dark and does not always go where you're expecting which is refreshing considering how many films follow a cookie cutter path.

This being a co-production with BBC films and a love letter to London the cast is full of amazing UK actors in roles of varying sizes. For Doctor Who fans, you'll see multiple people who've appeared in that great series (Penelope was "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister; Brian Cox was the voice of the lead Ood in "The End of Time" and played Sydney Newman in the anniversary tribute film "An Adventure in Space & Time"; etc.).

So be prepared for a meditative, sexy, smoky, dark story contemplating the mean of life, the role "luck" plays in everything, sin and whether the choices we make have consequences and/or penalties (much like the tennis motif that leads the film) or if everything just happens from moment to moment and everyone's aggressively going after their own selfish "wants" with no concern for others.

Where it goes might be hard for some people to watch, but it's an amazing film, well-written, acted, directed and far from the standard Woody Allen film in every way.

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sophiesmommy

3 stars because....

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2015

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This is a nail biting movie. It is about a young man's scheme to deal with the position he has put himself into. He has done this thing, all on his own, by desiring something he should never have. His has broken his marriage vows. How he gets himself out of all of it is the central plot of the movie. The performances are excellent all around. Every actor has perfect timing and an ability to deliver a performance. It is well done. I gave it 3 stars because I was traumatized by the ending. I would have gone another way with the story.

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BALACOBACO

The first Wood Allen movie shot outside the United States is very good!

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2016

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This is a gripping, terrifying movie...

No, it is not a horror movie...

Shot in London, it's about the misadventures of an ex-tennis professional, who becomes a tennis instructor in a highly exclusive London grass tennis club, then marries the (very rich) sister of one of his students. Then, he knows another woman and.... I'll stop here.

Photography is excellent, perfomances also, a sheer screenplay delight.

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GigiR81

I normally hate Woody Allen films

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2014

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I normally hate Woody Allen films.... they are just not my cup of tea, the ones I've watch have been boring and pretentious... but I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers so I had to watch this.. and my goodness, this is the best movie I have seen in a long time. Love the running themes in the movie... "about having incredible luck" vs. being born with skills, opportunity, etc... love that it wasn't your typical ending, and love the legitimately amazing acting. This film has really made me double think giving Mr. Allen's movies a second chance. This was superb!

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The Green Hornet

Serious Allen

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018

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This is one of Woody Allen's more serious films and its a masterpiece. Great acting and a great story with twists and turns that show the darker side of human nature in all its cut-throat viciousness.

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R. Hartzell

Not really recommended

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015

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A reasonably involving caper until it jumps the shark. Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" shares certain thematic elements with this movie, and though it's been a while since I've seen "Crimes" I think it handles its abhorrent behavior -- and its consequences -- more successfully, and more credibly, than this one does.

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sparkle

What to do about Sex!

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2014

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Wow. A new rendition of an older theme used by Woody Allen. In the older version, a doctor was having an affair, the woman became a pest, and he 'hired' her killing. He never got caught. This modern day version has an interesting sitting and characters to add something extra to the plot. Will he get caught? Love, lust, mystery, rags to riches, everyone is handsome and beautiful! Very engrossing.

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cora

Woody Allen is Attempting Film Noir

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2018

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The product description gives as much of a plot summary as you're likely to need for this attempt at a thriller/film noir by Woody Allen. Unfortunately I could never warm to the character of Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), nor to most of the other players in this, with the exception of Matthew Goode's character. The cast is rather more exciting than the story, everybody turning in solid performances indeed. Scarlett Johansson is terrific, as is Emily Mortimer. Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton well cast. The portrayal of the British upper classes is rather cliched with opera and art galleries and shooting featuring prominently.

Unfortunately this is not one of Allen's better films. There is no humour here. The element of whimsy which he does so well is absent. and that's a real pity. But maybe that's just me. Others seem to like it. And that's fine. If anything about it appeals to you give it a go. After all, it's not the worst film ever made. The cinematography is masterful and Mr Allen certainly does have an eye for beautiful shots. Also, he chooses to stay in the director's chair and we are spared his irritating presence on the screen and don't have to listen to his endless plaintive yammering. That, for me, is another point in favour of the film.

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Philoctetes

Crimes and Misdemeanors II: Woody's pessmism serves up a 5-setter.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2020

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This is Crimes & Misdemeanors meets The Talented Mr Ripley.

At two hours I reckon it's Woody Allen's longest movie, and at times it feels that way. I've long resisted Match Point. Advance notices for Woody's London period were not good, and You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger was total drek, but it's well known Match Point was a hit in USA and Allen rated it amongst his best, maybe even the best.

Failed pro tennis player turned instructor, Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) lucks out, as they say in the US, when his new tutee, Tom (Matthew Goode), takes a shine to him and invites him to the opera. He meets the family, starts a relationship with Tom's sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer), and is rapidly propelled into a swish lifestyle and a new career in the city. The problem is that sometimes like attracts like, and as full and sensuous as Chris' lips might be, they are equally matched by those of Tom's fiancée, Nola Rice (Scarlet Johansson). Nola's resistance is just the challenge a lucky lad like Chris is craving, and soon he's taking bigger and bigger risks to see her, and that's not even half the story.

I've recently concluded that the mistake some critics make, especially casual critics, when it comes to Woody Allen's movies, is that his is a cinematic world unto itself, as distinctive as Scorsese's mean streets or Lucas' galactic space wars, or Tarantinto's pulp fiction. One enters, as actor or spectator, the Woodyverse. Ergo, as a fan, I must be receptive to Woody's world overlapping with my turf, that is to say London and the UK. Contrary to some of the dissing, I found much of the dialogue persuasive, only rarely did it sound like american conversation translated into English drawing room knock-up (the tennis kind of knock-up). Rhys Meyers' Chris is impressively decorous in his manners, polite to a fault, although not a double fault (boom boom). He certainly is model handsome, and with Scarlet 'crippler' Johansson on hand as well the sheer pulchritude can feel overwhelming. The scenes of intimacy are, i think, a departure for Allen, and they walk the line between serious displays of passion and comedic pratfalling (e.g. the blindfold bit). Allen achieves genuine tragicomedy in the later acts when Chris puts his plan into action, and the effect amplifies the tension considerably. There's also something menacing about the use, not only of opera, but of vintage opera recital on the soundtrack.

Once again, as with Crimes..., Match Point puts us in a Dostoyevskian drama of moral turpitude. The problem is that Allen's pessimism is unleavened by an advocate of faith, and there is little in the way of Crimes..' dialoguing on the matter of conscience and criminality. Hence, this is more like The Talented Mr Ripley, less like the Russian master's classic antihero, the untalented Raskolnikov. But hey, as Allen often says, and the movie insists, so much in success comes down to luck.

I'll drop a star off because it does feel a little long. Excellent performances all round, although Brian Cox doesn't feel right as the family pater. Repeated use of Una Furtiva Lagrima maybe undermines the idea of Chris being a true opera buff (couldn't he think of other opera arias?).

But, all told, this was a very good film and a notable one in Allen's extensive oeuvre. And even if those intimate moments don't quite ignite the way one might wish them to, can't deny what Chris Rock said about it. MATCH POINT IS SEXY!

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Peter Scott-presland

Allen returns to form

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2018

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Not your standard Woody Allen fare but part of that strand of his work which strains towards significance a la Bergman. Usually the operative word is strain, but this combines a deliciously dark view of life with a fine sense of story sculpture and pacing. Jonathan Rhys-Myers is an outstanding anti-hero, thanks to Allen's great writing of a tremendously attractive, ferociously self-centred plausible villain. Some of the other characters are a bit vague, Brian Cox's Daddy is too good to be true and Johansson is an acquired taste, but as a morality tale of our greedy times this is a fine piece of work. As an audience we're drawn into the evil and gleefully connive at it, until something happens which is truly shocking. In some ways it's a reworking of old themes, but that's OK because Shakespeare did the same thing. If you like films for grown-ups, this is for you.

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Ken W

Deuce

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2017

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The theme of this Woody Allen gem is the clash between lust and love. A humble tennis coach meets a wealthy family through a common interest in tennis - then the opera. Allen cleverly uses Verdi operatic arias as a background theme to a scenario that develops and evolves from friendship, through marriage to the tycoon's daughter, to prospects of a lucrative career in business. However, he lusts after a beautiful young American actress, played by Scarlett Johansson, with whom he has an affair - but he has to choose between her, his wife and life with the rich and famous. His decision is developed powerfully by Allen, who builds tension with a dramatic Verdi aria, to a climax reminiscent of Hitchcock at his best.

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movedbymortensen

Great stuff and excellent acting by Rhys-M<eyers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2015

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A well acted story of really how life catches up on one tiny mistake/impulse that you know is wrong. But this story ended up with ramifications and twists and fears and impossibe 'had to happen' and it really is a film to feel the pain and panic and all the other emotions. The way the characters grow and change subtly is splendid stuff. in the end you don't know who to feel sorry for... if anyone. Great stuff and excellent acting by Rhys-M<eyers.

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