You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

film by Allen [2010]

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) is a film by Woody Allen that explores multiple romantic entanglements. Despite a notable cast including Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Naomi Watts, the film's plot, which involves astrology and psychic consultations, does not coalesce into a substantial narrative. Critics have sometimes viewed Allen's focus on upper-middle-class characters as limiting, and some felt he had lost touch with contemporary mainstream America.1

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) had a far more high-profile cast—Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, and Frieda Pinto—but the multiple romantic roundelays here never seem to add up to anything of substance, despite an offbeat plot involving…
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) had a far more high-profile cast—Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, and Frieda Pinto—but the multiple romantic roundelays here never seem to add up to anything of substance, despite an offbeat plot involving…
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