Cassandra's Dream From:Colin Farrell , Ewan McGregor , Hayley Atwell , Peter-Hugo Daly , John Benfield , WELLSPRING/GENIUS , Woody Allen , Weinstein Company ,
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019810647
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell star as working class brothers whose dreams of better lives leads to desperation, greed and deadly betrayal. When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place them in a financial bind, a rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton) offers them an out in exchange for committing murder. Featuring gripping performances from an all-star cast; "this family tragedy puts us near the edge of our seats and pulls us right along on its downward spiral" (William Arnold, Seattle Post Intelligencer). Woody Allen returns in razor-sharp form with this "intense, intelligently-written and directed," (Jeffrey Lyons, Reel Talk) thriller that challenges how far a man should go in the name of family.
Customer Reviews:
 Murder mystery or morality tale?, 2008-12-29
Woody Allen is perhaps best known for his comedies, but lately, he has been making films that are reflection on our humanity and morality. To me personally, this film is almost a continuation of the "Match Point" film. Set in Europe (England) we get to know two brothers, young and handsome, uneducated but eager to make it big in the world. Both are hustlers. One gambles in poker and on dog races, while the other pretends to be hotelier while he is helping his father in the family restaurant. Unable to keep the charade about their well set life, one gambles too much and gets in trouble with the local loan sharks while the other gets tangled in the love affair with the girl that is beyond his means. In order to make money they both so desparately need, they agree to kill for hire and their paying customer is no one else but their own uncle.
Can these two drifters and small time thiefs adopt themselves to the fact that they are now murderers? How will that affect their lives and their relationship? Can money take care of everything, even conscience?
I still do not understand why Allen had this story setup in the lower class London when it could be set anywhere. Cockney accent was hard to follow at times and two brothers in their stupidity do look like two silly boys; in spite of the awful things they've done they look like two fools. Good casting, but a bit too pretentious. This is not by any means Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Aspirations are high, but these two characters are too superficial, uneducated and greedy to get (me at least) pitied for their actions.
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