A millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant Manuel.
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Dame Penelope Wilton plays Eleanor Hewett, Chloe Hewett's mother, in the movie. So Penelope plays a Hewett in the movie, and her daughter becomes a Wilton when she marries Chris.
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The reference to "Crime and Punishment" is continued, as the escape, after the double-murder is almost a step-by-step recounting of Raskolnikov's escape from his double-murder; the major difference being that the older woman was Raskolnikov's target, and the younger woman was collateral damage. In the movie, it is the other way around, but staged to look the other way.
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This movie was originally set in the Hamptons.
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In a nod to Sir Alfred Hitchcock, a playbill showing Woody Allen's face in deadpan is briefly seen as Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) arrives at the Tate museum to meet Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson).
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On-set, Jonathan Rhys Meyers learned how to do a very good Woody Allen impression, which he later performed on Live with Kelly and Ryan (1983).
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Four famous tennis players are mentioned by the characters: Andre Agassi, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, and Rod Laver.
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Because it was filmed in Britain, Writer and Director Woody Allen had to have a certain percentage of British cast and crew. Apparently, he made his quota before casting Kate Winslet. After she backed out to spend more time with her family, Allen cast American Scarlett Johansson.
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One of a handful of Woody Allen directed movies which featured a murder. The others include: Cassandra's Dream (2007), Irrational Man (2015), Shadows and Fog (1991), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Also, death is a theme in Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Love and Death (1975), which featured the character of the Grim Reaper, as per the inspiration of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957).
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This is not the first movie where Scarlett Johansson played a homewrecker. She also played one in The Prestige (2006) and He's Just Not That Into You (2009), amongst other movies.
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