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Opened September 22, 2010
1 hr 38 min
R | some language
Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+. More on child suitability
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married. Full synopsis
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts
Director: Woody Allen
Genres: Comedy

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

| Calvin Wilson

Allen has been criticized for leaving some of the plot lines up in the air and several characters in the lurch. But he seems to be making a point: Neat Hollywood endings are as phony and dangerous as Cristal's ramblings. Read full review

Movieline

| Michelle Orange

Minor but still quite enjoyable. And like other minor Woody Allen pictures it becomes more interesting when placed in their larger context. Read full review

Wall Street Journal

| Joe Morgenstern

Good and very pleasurable provided you know what you're getting into, which is a comic roundelay of amorous ambitions and delusions-punctuated by wistful old ballads like "If I Had You"-that lead mostly but not entirely to disaster. Read full review

NPR

| Bob Mondello

Hardly a laff riot, but then that's been true of Allen's movies for a while. It is, however, briskly cynical about human nature, graciously forgiving about human foibles, and situationally amusing about the spectacles otherwise sane people make of themselves when they trust their fates to the stars. Read full review