Match Point - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Match Point or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Match Point

[dustin]

Chris is shown reading "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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.

[tamara]

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.

[carla]

The family name "Hewett" is a play on the ultra exclusive Manhattan private school Hewitt, which Writer and Director Woody Allen's daughters attend.

[carl]

First of three Woody Allen movies in which Scarlett Johansson appeared. The others being Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

[cameron]

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").

[alyssa]

Woody Allen and Emily Mortimer share a birthday (December 1).

[violet]

As of 2019, this marks as the only Woody Allen to not feature any Oscar nominated or Oscar winning actors or actresses in the cast. Usually Allen's ensemble casting on movies always includes someone who has received Oscar nominations or won the award.

[albert]

At two hours and four minutes, this is Writer and Director Woody Allen's longest movie to date.

[dustin]

Woody Allen's first movie shot entirely in England.

[richard]

The musical that they see midway through the movie is Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White".

[charlie]

The "Crime and Punishment" elements were also used in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), which was heavily compared by movie critics with this project at the time of its release. Both movies revolved around a married man who killed his lover in order to make things safer for himself.

[kylie]

This was Woody Allen's first movie since Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) to make a profit in the United States.

[jamie]

The other song frequently played is "Romance de Nadir", from Bizet's "Les pêcheurs de perles", in which one of the pearl fishers dreams about his forbidden love.

[darrell]

This movie was shown out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

[ruby]

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](/category/7709/Elvis-presley), whom Meyers played in Elvis (2005).

[norma]

This is Writer and Director Woody Allen's favorite movie of his own.

[francisco]

According to Eric Lax's book, this movie is one of Woody Allen's favorite movies. The others being (in order) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Stardust Memories (1980), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

[lonnie]

Many critics and viewers of this movie noted that the plot bore many essential similarities to Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel "An American Tragedy", as well as the movie version of that novel, A Place in the Sun (1951), starring Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, and Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Despite the unmistakable similarity between the plots of "An American Tragedy" and this movie, however, there was no acknowledgment of Dreiser in the credits, and this movie's only Oscar nomination was for Best Original Screenplay (not Adapted). Woody Allen repeated this tactic for creating a screenplay with his script for Blue Jasmine (2013), which bore unmistakable plot similarities to Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", but which didn't credit Williams. Allen was again nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Blue Jasmine (2013).

[kyle]

When discussing the murder case, Inspector Dowd (Ewen Bremner) insists it was commited by a heroin junkie. Bremner is mostly recognized for portraying heroin addict Spud in Trainspotting (1996).