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Cassandra's Dream

Play trailer Poster for Cassandra's Dream PG-13 Released Jan 18, 2008 1h 48m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Life is good for the Blaine brothers, at least for the moment. Ian (Ewan McGregor), a restaurateur, is in love with a gorgeous actress (Hayley Atwell) ; and Terry (Colin Farrell) wins big at the dog track and buys a yacht. Their luck soon changes when Terry's loan sharks come calling. The brothers ask their wealthy Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) for a loan, which he is happy to provide in exchange for one little favor: Kill a whistle-blowing colleague.
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Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson act up a storm in Cassandra's Dream, but Woody Allen's heavy-handed symbolism and foreshadowing drains the plot of all tension.

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Hank Sartin Time Out Rated: 2/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Linda Barnard Toronto Star Farrell and McGregor bring much to their roles...to make Cassandra's Dream an effective and chilling ride. Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 6, 2009 Full Review Rick Groen Globe and Mail It's enough to make you pine for the good old days -- back when life was only partly ironic and Woody was totally funny. Rated: 2/4 Feb 6, 2009 Full Review Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) It's not Dostoyevsky, but neither is it a shopworn trifle. It is, if you will excuse the literary metaphor, a good read. Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The storyline is habitual territory for Allen, mixing average, down-on-their-luck people with criminal opportunities for remediation. Rated: 6/10 Nov 28, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Farrell flexes his acting muscles by offering a more vulnerable performance than one might expect. Rated: 2.0/4.0 Sep 5, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é mais ou menos, o elenco é fraco e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/04/25 Full Review Cali M I don’t get all the bad reviews. It’s well written and acted, and I have to keep turning it off because it’s so intense and …predictable? Maybe I’m an idiot, but I didn’t foresee the end. Good film. I prefer Midnight in Paris, but you can’t compare the two films. I’d recommend it to my friends, absolutely Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/11/24 Full Review Alexsander F Um bom filme para se passar o tempo, um filme ruim de Woody Allen consegue ser melhor do que qualquer outro filme que seja "mais ou menos". Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/24 Full Review Jeff M If this isn't the darkest movie Woody Allen has ever made, it's gotta be in the top three or four. There is no comic relief here at all, so detractors of Allen's serious films should avoid at all costs. In fact, the drama and tragedy here feel almost Shakespearean at times. I'm giving the film a lukewarm recommendation, but a couple issues keep it from being the success for which I was hoping. As intriguing as the premise is, this isn't one of Allen's better screenplays, and the characters feel more like stereotypes than living, breathing people. But the biggest hurdle is the casting of McGregor and Farrell who never convince us for a moment that they are brothers. Neither give a performance that will highlight their resumes - Farrell in particular seems to struggle in the more intense moments of the film. Overall, there is enough good here to recommend - but just slightly. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/24 Full Review robert r In discussing my thoughts on the last movie I saw of his -- "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" -- I talked about the many different shades of Woody Allen we've seen over the years (i.e. "satire Woody Allen," "crime/thriller Woody Allen," "romantic drama Woody Allen," etc.) Welp. I can say this is, without a doubt, my very first exposure to "Woody Allen, the occasionally mediocre screenwriter/director." Don't get me wrong, I'd still say I enjoyed the net product overall, with the second half of the movie presenting moral dilemma after moral dilemma, each nagging at the base of your skull like a migraine waiting to happen. It just so happens that there are other migraine-inducing things in play here, namely the hammer-fisted dialogue and character development, ultimately plaguing a good portion of this film's first half. Combine that with some of the weakest direction I've seen in a Woody Allen picture to date and you get the experience of watching "Cassandra's Dream," a marginally thought-provoking, decently acted morality play, with some upsettingly sub-par writing interspersed throughout it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member For some reason I am having a hard time figuring out this movie just doesn't resonate it feels hollow Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Life is good for the Blaine brothers, at least for the moment. Ian (Ewan McGregor), a restaurateur, is in love with a gorgeous actress (Hayley Atwell) ; and Terry (Colin Farrell) wins big at the dog track and buys a yacht. Their luck soon changes when Terry's loan sharks come calling. The brothers ask their wealthy Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) for a loan, which he is happy to provide in exchange for one little favor: Kill a whistle-blowing colleague.
Director
Woody Allen
Producer
Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley
Screenwriter
Woody Allen
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
Production Co
Wild Bunch, Virtual Films
Rating
PG-13 (Some Sexual Material|Brief Violence|Thematic Elements)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 18, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$969.6K
Runtime
1h 48m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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