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Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

PG-13  |   |  Comedy, Romance  |  15 August 2014 (USA)
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A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

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Stanley is a magician who has dedicated his life to revealing fraudulent spiritualists. He plans to quickly uncover the truth behind celebrated spiritualist Sophie and her scheming mother. However, the more time he spends with her, he starts thinking that she might actually be able to communicate with the other world, but even worse, he might be falling in love with her. Written by Anne Campbell

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Rated PG-13 for a brief suggestive comment, and smoking throughout | See all certifications »

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15 August 2014 (USA)  »

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Magia a la luz de la luna  »

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$412,095 (USA) (25 July 2014)

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$10,506,939 (USA) (7 November 2014)
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Stanley's onstage persona of Wei Ling Soo is a reference to Chung Ling Soo, the stage name of William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918). He was a popular magician in the U.S. and Europe for many years. Like Stanley, Chung Ling Soo was also known for trying to debunk spiritualists, and even wrote a book about it in 1898. A major difference is how carefully the men protect their Chinese personas. In the movie, it seems as though people are aware of Stanley's role as Wei Ling Soo. Robinson was very careful to protect his stage persona. See more »

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The film is set in 1928, and it appears to be summer, but a piece of the music in the magic show in the beginning is Ravel's "Bolero", which had its premier on 22 November at the Paris Opera. See more »

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Stanley: I view your behavior as a great man views the malicious mischief of... what shall we say, pygmy?
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Magic or Not?
21 August 2014 | by (Los Angeles, CA) – See all my reviews

Woody Allen's 45th film in as many years, the wondrously poetic yet intellectually dazzling "Magic in the Moonlight", proves once again that he is the greatest living American director. Virtually without peer, besides the prodigious output, no one moves as effortlessly between styles and genres while still managing to grapple with the usual existential themes in new and exciting ways: is love really real, magical vs. rational thinking, cynicism vs. optimism. Like the master magician here played so brilliantly by Colin Firth, he manages to use illusion to ensnare you, to keep you guessing at the outcome despite his classicist's adherence to form and tradition. But like an artist, he is also as enthralled as we, as lost in the journey, as anxious about the final determination of the question of life's purpose and meaning or complete lack of it. Once again he proves that he is both right and wrong in his cynical outlook on life, that rationality and irrationality can coexist perfectly, that one cannot judge or evaluate the other fairly as neither has a framework to understand the other. Absurd and frothy on the one hand, nuanced and emotional on the other, it manages to be at once a light, popular entertainment and great work of cinematic art.


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