Woody Allen Returns with New Film: Tall Dark Stranger (Video)

Prolific filmmaker and humorist Woody Allen returns to the big screen in September with his greatly anticipated romantic comedy, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.” The movie follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and 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 fortune teller.

Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner 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 fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” explores with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.

“You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Official Selection: 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Official Selection: 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, hits theaters everywhere September 22, 2010.

Take a look at the new trailer:

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