Match Point

film by Allen [2005]

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"Match Point" is a 2005 film directed by Woody Allen. It is a departure from his typical comedies, offering a suspenseful meditation on desire and fate, influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Theodore Dreiser. The film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a British tennis player whose engagement to a wealthy socialite is complicated when he becomes involved with an American actress, played by Scarlett Johansson. The film features a predominantly British cast and is noted for its built-up suspense, making it an atypical Woody Allen production. The title "Match Point" refers to a situation in sports where winning the next point secures victory.12

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Woody Allen
The 2000s
Match Point (2005) was a major departure and became Allen’s most celebrated film in years. A suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock-like meditation on the vagaries of desire and fate, by way of Theodore Dreiser, it starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an upwardly mobile British tennis pro whose…
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Match Point (2005) was a major departure and became Allen’s most celebrated film in years. A suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock-like meditation on the vagaries of desire and fate, by way of Theodore Dreiser, it starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an upwardly mobile British tennis pro whose…
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Brian Cox
Career
…director Woody Allen’s psychological thriller Match Point (2005). Cox’s career continued to gain momentum over the next 10 years, as he landed roles in the comedy-drama film Running with Scissors (2006), the Western television series Deadwood (2006), the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), and…
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…director Woody Allen’s psychological thriller Match Point (2005). Cox’s career continued to gain momentum over the next 10 years, as he landed roles in the comedy-drama film Running with Scissors (2006), the Western television series Deadwood (2006), the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), and…
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