Culver City, CA (December 20, 2010) – A 2010 Official Selection at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Woody Allen (1977 Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Annie Hall; 1986 Best Original Screenplay, Hannah and Her Sisters) will be released on Blu-ray™ and DVD on February 15, 2011 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger stars Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins (1991 Best Actor, The Silence of the Lambs), Academy Award® nominees Josh Brolin (2009 Best Supporting Actor, Milk) and Naomi Watts (2004 Best Actress, 24 Grams) and Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) and Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire). This Sony Pictures Classics film will be available for an SLP of $38.96 for Blu-ray and $28.95 for DVD.
Synopsis
Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and her husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds.
After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Lucy Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortuneteller.
Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.
Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality and perilous hot water.
Taking its title from the prediction fortunetellers use to beguile their marks, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger illustrates with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger was written and directed by Woody Allen. Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Jaume Roures. Starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch and Naomi Watts.
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