You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Two couples discover the grass may not always be greener on the other side in Woody Allen’s breezy comedy on wry, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. Hoping to relive the pleasures of youth, Alfie Shepridge (Anthony Hopkins) dumps his wife of 40 years (Gemma Jones) and pursues a young call girl (Lucy Punch). So when daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) develops a crush on her boss (Antonio Banderas) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin) becomes obsessed with the beauty (Freida Pinto) who lives across the way, the entire clan’s fantasies take on reality as their passions not only drive them out of their marriages, but out of their minds as well.
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Interesting - LilyandMick
This movie was interesting movie with kind of up and down story. They had a great casts on this movie which made more fun and interesting of this storyline. The characters have individual funny difference and to match it together and work together, it is interesting.Depressing - SGRG
You can't call this a "romantic comedy". I don't remember laughing at all. It is about a bunch of people making stupid, dishonest decisions and paying for it. Voiceover narration at times (a la Desperate Housewives) was annoying as well. Acting was decent.Solid Allen Not Classic - ABC99
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a pretty good Woody Allen movie. It has all the strong writing and the adult characters and situations. Characters struggle with the little things that never make it in movies. Despite being successful they are stupid in their life. Despite being privledged they fail professionally. Allen's movies are refreshing because rarely do characters breathe in movies like they do in his.
The downside is the cast here doesn't seem as comfortable. Josh Brolin looks more like a bartender then he does with the writer and he really is the star. His character does bring down the film. Still pretty good though.
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Interesting - LilyandMick
This movie was interesting movie with kind of up and down story. They had a great casts on this movie which made more fun and interesting of this storyline. The characters have individual funny difference and to match it together and work together, it is interesting.Depressing - SGRG
You can't call this a "romantic comedy". I don't remember laughing at all. It is about a bunch of people making stupid, dishonest decisions and paying for it. Voiceover narration at times (a la Desperate Housewives) was annoying as well. Acting was decent.Solid Allen Not Classic - ABC99
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a pretty good Woody Allen movie. It has all the strong writing and the adult characters and situations. Characters struggle with the little things that never make it in movies. Despite being successful they are stupid ...