Directed by:
Woody AllenScreenplay:
Woody AllenCinematography:
Darius KhondjiCast:
Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Antonia Clarke, Simon McBurney, Ute Lemper, Catherine McCormack, Eileen Atkins, Erica Leerhsen, Jeremy Shamos, Hamish Linklater (more)VOD (2)
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Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo is the most celebrated magician of his age, but few know that he is the stage persona of Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), a grouchy and arrogant Englishman with a sky-high opinion of himself and an aversion to phony spiritualists’ claims that they can perform real magic. Persuaded by his life-long friend, Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney), Stanley goes on a mission to the Côte d’Azur mansion of the Catledge family: mother Grace (Jacki Weaver), son Brice (Hamish Linklater), and daughter Caroline (Erica Leerhsen). He presents himself as a businessman named Stanley Taplinger in order to debunk the alluring young clairvoyant Sophie Baker (Emma Stone) who is staying there with her mother (Marcia Gay Harden). Sophie arrived at the Catledge villa at the invitation of Grace, who is convinced that Sophie can help her contact her late husband, and once there, attracted the attention of Brice, who has fallen for her head over heels. From his very first meeting with Sophie, Stanley dismisses her as an insignificant pip-squeak who he can unmask in no time, scoffing at the family’s gullibility. To his great surprise and discomfort, however, Sophie accomplishes numerous feats of mind-reading and other supernatural deeds that defy all rational explanation, leaving him dumbfounded. Before long, Stanley confesses to his beloved Aunt Vanessa (Eileen Atkins) that he has begun to wonder whether Sophie’s powers could actually be real. If they were to be true, Stanley realizes that anything might be possible, even good, and his entire belief system would come crashing down. What follows is a series of events that are magical in every sense of the word and send the characters reeling. In the end, the biggest trick Magic in the Moonlight plays is the one that fools us all. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Colin Firth
UK
Best movies:
The King's Speech (2010)
Love Actually (2003)
Conspiracy (2001) (TV movie)
Emma Stone
USA
Best movies:
The Help (2011)
Poor Things (2023)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Antonia Clarke
Best movies:
Les Misérables (2012)
Mindscape (2013)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Simon McBurney
UK
Best movies:
Wolfwalkers (2020)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Ute Lemper
West Germany
Best movies:
Prospero's Books (1991)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Ready to Wear (1994)
Catherine McCormack
UK
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Promise at Dawn (2017)
Eileen Atkins
UK
Best movies:
Cold Mountain (2003)
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
The Hours (2002)
Erica Leerhsen
USA
Best movies:
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Anything Else (2003)
Jeremy Shamos
USA
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
Dedication (2007)
Taking Woodstock (2009)
Hamish Linklater
USA
Best movies:
42 (2013)
Groove (2000)
The Big Short (2015)
Marcia Gay Harden
USA
Best movies:
Into the Wild (2007)
Detachment (2011)
Mystic River (2003)
Jacki Weaver
Australia
Best movies:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Bird Box (2018)
Rudolf Krause
West Germany
Best movies:
Ku'damm 59 (2018) (series)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Fiddlesticks (2014)
Paul Bandey
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
The Visitors (1993)
The Illusionist (2010)
Lionel Abelanski
France
Best movies:
Atonement (2007)
Train of Life (1998)
Edmond (2018)
Jürgen Zwingel
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1995)
La Belle Époque (2019)
In Her Name (2016)
Jessica Forde
UK
Best movies:
Betty Blue (1986)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Patrick Zard
Best movies:
The Concert (2009)
Les Sous-doués (1980)
Le Grand Charles (2006) (TV movie)