Match Point
There are no little secrets.
Country
Production
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$85 306 374
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Letty Aronson, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley, Stephen Tenenbaum
Camera operator
Remi Adefarasin
Composer
Artist
Jim Clay, Oliver Goodier
Audition
Juliet Taylor, Gail Stevens, Patricia Kerrigan DiCerto
Editing
Alisa Lepselter
Whole Team (93)
Whole Team (93)
Short description
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.
What's left behind the scenes
- The plot of the film echoes the plot of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy" (1925).
- The musical seen in the film is Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White.
- At the beginning of the film, Chris Wilton is reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", and shortly after meeting Nola Rice – August Strindberg.
- In one of the scenes, the characters go to the cinema to see Walter Salles' film The Motorcycle Diaries, about the young Che Guevara.
- Kate Winslet was initially cast in the role of Nola Rice, but she declined, citing a desire to spend more time with her family. Also, considering the film was shot in Britain, Woody Allen had to cast a certain percentage of the actors and artistic crew from England. He clearly met the required 'British' quota before Winslet was cast, and therefore, after her withdrawal from the project, Woody without hesitation entrusted the role of Nola to American actress Scarlett Johansson.
- The first Woody Allen film to be shot entirely in Britain.
- Memorable concert recordings are featured several times in the film, including during the opening and closing credits. This is "Una furtiva lagrima" performed by Enrico Caruso from Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore".
- The musical being watched in the film is Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White".
- Woody Allen cast Toby Kebbell in the film without an audition, having been impressed by his performance in the movie Dead Man's Shoes.
- Woody Allen invited Toby Kebbell to the film without an audition, impressed by his performance in "Dead Man's Shoes".
- Woody Allen's first film shot entirely in Britain from beginning to end.
- Kate Winslet was originally cast in the role of Nola Rice, but she declined, stating that she wanted to spend more time with her family. Given that the film was being shot in Britain, Woody Allen was required to recruit a certain percentage of the cast and crew from England. Having already met the necessary "British" quota before casting Winslet, Woody did not hesitate to entrust the role of Nola to American actress Scarlett Johansson after Winslet's refusal.
- In one scene of the film, the characters go to a cinema to watch Walter Salles's "Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries" about the young Che Guevara.
- The film features music by Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Carlos Gomes.
- The painting on the wall depicting a girl with a red balloon, past whom Chris walks, was painted by Banksy – a graffiti artist from Bristol.
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