Match Point (2005)


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
James Nesbitt           Detective Banner
Ewen Bremner            Inspector Dowd
Rupert Penry-Jones      Henry
Margaret Tyzack         Mrs Eastby
Alexander Armstrong     Mr. Townsend
Paul Kaye               Estate Agent
Janis Kelly             "La Traviata" Performer
Alan Oke                "La Traviata" Performer
Mark Gatiss             Ping-Pong Player
Philip Mansfield        Waiter
Simon Kunz              Rod Carver
Geoffrey Streatfield    Alan Sinclair 

Directed by:            Woody Allen
Produced by:            Stephen Tenenbaum, Jack Rollins (III), Charles H. Joffe


Chris Wilton, a young tennis instructor, becomes involved with a wealthy family, one member of which 
he's giving tennis lessons to. This leads to his rise in the world of upper class people and his 
subsequent romantic involvement with two women. A clandestine affair follows, leading him into an ever 
deepening quagmire until the only way out for him is to contemplate doing away with one of the women.

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Chris, a recently retired tennis player, requests work like instructor in a London select club, there 
he knows and friendship begins with Tom Hewett who is member of an English wealthy family, Chris is a 
youth with luck, Chloe sister of Tom falls in love with Chris who takes advantage of this. On the 
other hand, Nola, an American sensual actress of little mount, girlfriend of Tom, knows Chris in a 
family party and the Irishman immediately is attracted by the beauty of the actress. Different to 
Nola's fate, Chris is well accepted in the Hewett's family and has the fortune of sympathizing with 
Mr. Alec Hewett who uses their influence to place young Chris in an executive position. Chris marries 
this way Chloe, Tom breaks up suddenly with Nola and he marries a youth of his class. Then Chris looks 
for Nola laboriously, and he revives the passion that feels for the American, this way Chris is amid an 
enormous pressure, coming from the work, of his relationship with Nola and of his wife's necessity of 
having a son. Finally, Nola leaves pregnant and she begins to press Chris so that he abandones Chloe, 
the retired tennis player has to make a difficult decision that will take him to extreme situations and 
a fatal destination for the young actress. Again the random, the good luck, allows Chris to stay free 
of this difficult situation, again the ball hits in the net and it falls in the rival's land.

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Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a 
well-off pretty boy. Tom's sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, 
the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it's wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris 
tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them.

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Tennis pro Chris Wilton takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his 
students, wealthy young Tom Hewitt. Tom introduces Chris to his family and Chris falls quickly into a 
romance with Tom's sister Chloe. But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and 
the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris's way through his relationship with 
the delighted Hewitt family, Chris becomes increasingly intrigued and eventually romantically involved 
with Tom's fiancée, Nola Rice, a struggling American actress. Their passionate trysts leave Chris in 
danger of losing the wealth and position he has now come to enjoy. The only solution to the dilemma 
seems unthinkable.

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The Irish former professional player Chris Wilton from the lower class gets a job as tennis instructor 
in an upper class club in London. Chris becomes close to his student Tom Hewett, who introduces him to 
his British upper class family, and Tom's sister Chloe immediately falls in love with him. The ambitious 
Chris keeps the relationship with Chloe, feeling lust for Tom's fiancée, the American aspirant actress 
Nola Rice, and they have a brief affair. Chris gets married to Chloe and climbs to a high position in a 
company of the Hewett's family, while Tom breaks his engagement with Nola. When Chris meets Nola by 
chance, he becomes obsessed for her and she becomes his mistress. When Nola gets pregnant and presses 
him, he balances the financial advantages of his marriage but he has to take a decision in his life and 
choose the woman he wants for his companion.