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Synopsis: Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Woody Allen
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
R
Year:
2010
98 min
$3,200,000
Website
786 Views


- No.

- I handed it in yesterday.

- Well done.

No, I'm a nervous wreck.

I don't know what I'll do

if it doesn't make it.

- Come on.

- No, I don't know what I'll do.

I'll be chauffeuring

the goddamned limos again...

- Rubbish!

- All my confidence is gone.

Because of you, partially,

my confidence is gone.

Hello?

Hi, Mum. Come in.

Why does she have to

come over here so often?

I mean, it's once, twice. It's endless!

I'm trying to relax here.

My nerves are shot from waiting.

I know. She can't stand to be alone.

And, you know, I worry about her, Roy.

She's taken to talking to herself

a bit, lately.

And you encourage her

with that phony mind-reader.

Well, okay, yes!

Cristal is a fake. We know that, but...

Thank God she buys into it,

and it gives her peace of mind,

and don't you try

and spoil it for her, please.

Okay, look, I'm not gonna say anything.

I just don't think you help her

by going into that garbage...

about foretelling her future.

She needs medicine, not illusions.

No, not if the illusions

work better than the medicine.

- Here I am, darling.

- Hi, Mum!

I've just come from a session with Cristal.

That woman is uncanny.

I know you have

a cold, scientific background, Roy.

Yes, I have a tough time

with mumbo-jumbo.

Roy, please!

Look, if you feel better, then it's just...

I don't know.

We discussed you.

She was very positive about your future.

Though, to be perfectly candid,

she didn't see it in literature.

Well, that's too bad.

Let's hope she's channeling

the wrong spirits.

She's rarely wrong.

Mum, Roy just handed in

his new novel this week.

He's on tenterhooks while they read it.

Well, I'm only saying

not to build your hopes up.

- Cristal said...

- No, I don't care what Cristal said. Okay?

Mum, nobody's infallible! Please! Let it...

I know she's always right with your future,

but it doesn't mean she knows Roy's.

She's never even met him!

She was very complimentary

in her readings about Roy,

just not necessarily as a writer.

Not at this point in time.

She did say one day,

perhaps, with maturity...

Oh, by the way,

could I have another glove of yours?

I'm sorry, but she lost the first one.

What glove?

Did you give her my missing glove? Jesus!

Did he take the book home with him?

But no clue whether he could

get to it this weekend?

Okay. No, I'll call back.

Okay, now let's go back

and take a look at Alfie Shepridge.

Since his divorce,

Alfie Shepridge did not exactly find himself

leading the thirtysomething life

he envisioned in his new digs.

Friends fixed him up with one or two women

they thought might be appropriate.

Always that word...

But it was not what he had in mind.

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Woody Allen

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and playwright, whose career spans more than six decades. more…

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