Cassandra's Dream PG-13

Cassandra's Dream
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 27, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Weinstein

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User Ratings: 121,967
Rating: 2/5 -- Disappointing, badly overwritten drama from Woody Allen, rendered almost unwatchable by dreadful Cockney accents from McGregor and Farrell. Full Review
ViewLondon
Oct 18, 2008
Rating: 1/5 -- Woody Allen still insists on making movies at the rate of one a year, but he clearly needs to slow down. A lot. Full Review
Guardian
Oct 18, 2008
This tale of two brothers wrenched apart when they act badly is really a testament to its stars, who in this film act very well, and with visible joy. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 25, 2008
Rating: 1.5/5 -- At this point, I guess we should just applaud Allen for his work ethic. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Oct 18, 2008
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Cassandra's Dream is, in fact, not the worst film in the Woodman's oeuvre. But it does tend to underline his weaknesses.
Jam! Movies
Feb 6, 2009
Rating: 2/4 -- It's enough to make you pine for the good old days -- back when life was only partly ironic and Woody was totally funny. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Feb 6, 2009
Rating: 2/4 -- By no means is this lukewarm drama Woody Allen's worst work, but it's no dream, either.
Times-Picayune
Sep 4, 2009

Product Description:

Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, while brother Ian (McGregor) hankers for the finer things when he starts dating a very ambitious actress (Hayley Atwell). Fate deals a hand when their rich American uncle (Tom Wilkinson) slinks into London with a murderous proposition.

Named for the boat the lads buy during a rare flush moment--a symbol of the morally compromising power of money and the inevitability, perhaps, of fate--CASSANDRA'S DREAM is another of Allen's loving looks at moneyed urbanites and their penchant for living out Greek tragedy, a la MATCH POINT and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. This time around, it's a bit darker, but with Farrell and McGregor in the leads, there's plenty of star power. The lads are clearly having a ball acting under Allen's direction, and they're allowed to develop a charming, rapid-fire fraternal rapport that carries the film--along with Wilkinson's old-school gravitas and Atwell's luminous charisma. Phillip Glass composed the score.

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