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Match Point (Scarlett Johansson & Jonothan Rhys Myers)

Match Point is an Academy Award-nominated 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, and Matthew Goode. Rhys-Meyers plays Chris Wilton, a tennis pro seeking a new direction for his life, who seems to find it all (friendship, a new career, love) when he meets the members of a wealthy British family. Mortimer and Goode play siblings in the family, and Johansson plays a struggling actress who is engaged to Goode's character.The film is the first of Allen's films to be shot in England, and his first film since Love and Death to be entirely shot outside of the United States.The story is a fable about the role that luck plays in determining everyone's destiny. As protagonist Chris Wilton notes in an opening voice-over:The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.After realizing that he does not have what it takes to become a successful professional tennis player, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) takes a job as a tennis coach at Queens Tennis Club. He befriends Tom (Matthew Goode), a rich young playboy, and he begins a somewhat passionless relationship with Tom's sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer), whom he describes as "sweet." They are both members of the wealthy Hewett family, headed by father Alec (played by Brian Cox) and mother Eleanor (Penelope Wilton).Wilton is immediately as drawn to Tom's fiancée, actress Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson), as she is to him. The two act on this mutual attraction, though Nola later tells him nothing can come of it.Some time later, Chris has married Chloe, with a promising career as a businessman in her father's firm. After discovering that Tom and Nola have broken up, he attempts to locate her and finally bumps into her at Tate Modern. He begins a clandestine affair with her; one that soon leads to Nola's news that she is pregnant. While his passion for Nola remains strong, his whole life is so dependent upon the wealthy family that has taken him under their wing, that for a while he tries to have it all – a situation that Nola is increasingly unable to tolerate. Nola demands that he talk to Chloe about the situation and tells Chris that if he doesn't talk to Chloe, she will.Chris feels cornered into a desperate situation – which includes a close call during which Nola almost reveals their affair. After discussing the matter with a trusted friend and former tennis partner, he decides that he wishes to maintain his comfortable life with Chloe, even though, for that purpose, he feels compelled to kill Nola.At this point, a film that was mostly a drama about Chris and his relationships with and dependencies on the Hewett family becomes a thriller.  

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