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Match Point (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• This is Woody Allen's first film to be shot entirely in Britain.
  
  
• At 124 minutes, this is Woody Allen's longest film to date.
  
  
• Kate Winslet was originally cast in this film as Nola Rice, but backed out in order to spend more time with her family. Since this was filmed in England Woody Allen had to have a certain percentage of an English cast and crew, apparently he made his quota before casting Winslet, after she dropped out Woody cast American actress Scarlett Johansson.
  
  
• The film was shown out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
  
  
• The painting of a girl with a red balloon on the wall that Chris walks along was done by Banksy, a graffiti artist from Bristol.
  
  
• Originally, the story was set in the Hamptons.
  
  
• The musical they see midway through the movie is Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman In White".
  
  
• Woody Allen's first film in 19 years to make a profit in America, following 21 films that haven't. (The last was Hannah and Her Sisters (1986))
  
  
• The haunting recording used several times in the soundtrack, including over the opening and closing credits, is the Enrico Caruso 78 rpm of "Una furtiva lagrima" ("A furtive tear"), from Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'Elisir d'Amore" ("The Elixir of Love").
  
  
• Woody Allen's favourite film of his own.
  
  
• On set Jonathan Rhys Meyers learned how to do a very good Woody Allen impression which he later performed on "Live With Regis and Kelly".
  
  
• In joke: Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) responds to a generosity by saying, "Thank you. Thank you very much." This exact phrase is often associated with Elvis Presley, whom Meyers played in Elvis (2005) (TV).
  
  

• SPOILER: Chris is shown reading 'Crime and Punishment', by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Later on, when talking to Mrs. Eastby's ghost, he refers to the book, by saying that sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice the innocent in order to succeed.
  
  

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