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Match Point

2005, Movie, R, 124 mins

Match Point: Review

Hailed as Woody Allen's best film in a decade — which sets a very low bar — and as a new direction in his work — which appears to boil down to the fact that it's set in London instead of New York — this thin chronicle of bad behavior among the rich and self-obsessed is painfully derivative, borrowing wholesale from Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and echoing Allen's own CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989). Affable second-string tennis pro Chris Wilton (J... read more

Match Point: Cast & Details

Year: 2005
Rated R

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Cast
Scarlett Johansson: Nola Rice
Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Chris Wilton
Emily Mortimer: Chloe Hewett Wilton
Matthew Goode: Tom Hewett
Brian Cox: Alec Hewett
Penelope Wilton: Eleanor Hewett

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Match Point: TV Guide News

THIS 'N' THAT | Today's News: Our Take | 1/20/2006
Keri Russell, she of Felicity and Mike Ausiello-is-my-stalker fame, and Match Point's Jonathan Rhys Meyers will play the parents of a musical prodigy in August Rush, a drama shooting this summer in New York.... FX has announced a March 28 premiere for Thief, its new drama starring Homicide: Life on the Street's Andre Braugher.... Kung Fu Hustle was named outstanding film, and Lost lovebirds Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim netted top TV acting honors at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards, to be broadcast Jan. 29 on AZN Television. read more
Golden Globes Backstage Report! | Today's News: Our Take | 1/17/2006
After the shell-shocked winners step off stage at the Golden Globe Awards, they go backstage to meet the press. When they find us reporters camped out in the Wilshire Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the stars are granted a second chance of sorts: They can either address the world with more eloquence than they mustered onstage, or simply make bigger fools of themselves! Once this TVGuide.com reporter got past surly security guards at the door, I took my seat and watched a parade of Lost thespians, Desperate Housewives and Brokeback Mountaineers take their shots. Read on to see how they fared in the media frenzy.
5:15 pm/PT What will Syriana scene-stealer George Clooney do with his best-supporting-actor trophy? "I'm going to put this on the hood of my car," he quipped. "Is that too much?" Everybody's a joker, George. But this time it's a plus: While Mr. Clooney couldn't resist making that Jack Abramoff crack onstage, at read more
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Meets His Match | Today's News: Our Take | 1/1/2006
Jonathan Rhys Meyers had no idea what he was getting into — literally — when Woody Allen cast him in the romantic thriller Match Point, now in select theaters. "I had never read the script when Woody offered the role to me," the actor tells TVGuide.com. "And I just accepted. For any young actor to be in a Woody Allen film, you're just going to do it regardless of what it is." Once Rhys Meyers did peruse the script, he was hit with another surprise. "I was like, 'If I get four or five good scenes, I'll be gold.' And then it dawned on me how much work I had to do in this!" And how. Match Point features Rhys Meyers as Chris, a former tennis champ who latches on to new Brit bud Tom (Matthew Goode read more
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Meets His Match | Today's News: Our Take | 12/29/2005
Jonathan Rhys Meyers had no idea what he was getting into — literally — when Woody Allen cast him in the romantic thriller Match Point, now in select theaters. "I had never read the script when Woody offered the role to me," the actor tells TVGuide.com. "And I just accepted. For any young actor to be in a Woody Allen film, you're just going to do it regardless of what it is." Once Rhys Meyers did peruse the script, he was hit with another surprise. "I was like, 'If I get four or five good scenes, I'll be gold.' And then it dawned on me how much work I had to do in this!" And how. Match Point features Rhys Meyers as Chris, a former tennis champ who latches on to new Brit bud Tom (Mat read more
Scarlett Johansson Makes Her Point | Today's News: Our Take | 12/26/2005
Woody Allen's Match Point — the Oscar winner's first London-based project, now playing in select cities — lives and dies on the notion that Scarlett Johansson is a dangerously irresistible beauty. After all, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers' former tennis champ jeopardizes everything, including a good wife (played by Emily Mortimer) and a good life, to steal whenever and wherever he can rapturous romps with Johansson's frustrated actress. It all heats to a boil and a shocking third act that makes one thing brutally clear: This is not Hannah and her Sisters, folks.

Despite the dark turn her ch read more