You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Synopsis
After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, 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, while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.
Despite these characters' attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality, and perilous hot water. Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, illustrates with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.
Details
- Year
- 2010
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 98 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Woody Allen
- Producer
- Javier Mendez, Helen Robin, Nicky Kentish Barnes
- Editor
- Alisa Lepselter
- Screenwriter
- Woody Allen
- Director of Photography
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Production Designer
- Jim Clay
- Sound
- Peter Glossop
- Principal cast
- Naomi Watts, Gemma Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Lucy Punch
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Dippermouth Productions Limited
c/o Malde & Co99 Kenton Road
Kenton
Harrow HA3 0AN
UK
Sales Company
Imagina International Sales
Ctra. Fuencarral-AlcobendasKm 12,450
Madrid
Spain
Tel: +34 91 728 57 42
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