You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
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Critic Consensus: It's sporadically amusing, and typically well-cast, but You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger isn't one of Woody Allen's more inspired late-period efforts.
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Cast
as Greg Clemente
as Roy
as Alfie
as Sally
as Helena
as Dia
as Charmaine
as Cristal
as Jane
as Henry Strangler
as Alan
as Peter Wicklow
as Enid Wicklow
as Jonathan
as Iris
as Ray
as Malcolm Dodds
as Jogging Partner
as Personal Trainer
as Rollerblading Friend
as Poker Friend
as Poker Friend
as Poker Friend
as Poker Friend
as Dia's Aunt
as Alfie's Date
as Jewelry Shop Salesman
as Ray's Friend
as Ray's Friend
as Dia's Father
as Dia's Mother
as Alan's Father
as Alan's Mother
as Alan's Sister
as Medium
as Narrator
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Critic Reviews for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
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There's plenty of ambiguous intellectual heft lurking behind the curtain of mediocrity - so it's a pity it feels like it was dashed off in a few hours one afternoon.
The talented cast fails to gel into a dynamic ensemble: You just see actors going through familiar paces.
Woody Allen cranks out another formulaic interweave of romantic crushes, with old jazz on the soundtrack to supply some artificial gaiety.
Classic Woody -- an ensemble cast of brilliant actors, a timeless story that could be set virtually anywhere and crisp writing and direction that neither lollygags or rushes.
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.
Woody Allen may still be funny, but he's sure not much fun anymore.
Audience Reviews for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Allen could have come up with something a lot more interesting to say than that illusion is always better than reality; and so this is only a very soulless tale of sound and fury that signifies nothing and never knows if it wants to be a comedy, a romance or a drama.
Super Reviewer
Middling Woody, a cast of talented actors portray a bunch of not terribly interesting or for that matter likable people.
Super Reviewer
I'm not sure why this film doesn't get better ratings, but my hunch is that it's because, compared to other Woody Allen everyone's-lusting-after-everyone-else ensemble films, this one's rather humourless. I thought that Brolin and Watts played a good exasperated couple, and that Lucy Punch was incredible as the mother-in-law that pushes every button Brolin's character has. Plus, as usual for Allen, there's a fascination with death on display, and the psychics and seances lighten the rest of the story's mood, which is a sombre one given that it's basically about writer's block and the dissolution of what should be a promising marriage. I really got into the characters, though - despite how despicable the writer Brolin played was - and I thought the story was captivating, if a little twee as it approached the end. A good film, or maybe, as a writer myself, one I'd have liked no matter what. In any case, I guarantee that it's not as bad as you've heard.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Quotes
| Alfie: | The dead are the stiffest competition. No pun intended. |
| Helena: | The dead are the stiffest competition. No pun intended. |
| Roy: | You inspire me. |
| Sally: | There is no such thing as predicting the future! |