BY EVAN MCGARVEY
Daily Music Editor
Published January 23, 2006
Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Myers, "Bend It Like Beckham") is a tennis player. Not a great one, but good enough to enter into a decently paid life as a country- club instructor. "Luck is infatuated with the efficient," the Persian idiom goes, and Chris is nothing if not efficient. He befriends his rich client (Matthew Goode, "Chasing Liberty"), suddenly romances and marries his equally rich sister (Emily Mortimer, "Scream 3") and even wins over her exceedingly warm and proper, old-money parents (Brian Cox, "The Ring," and Penelope Wilton, "Shaun of the Dead").
With an endless backdrop of Italian Arias and SoHo (the original, mind you) luxury, Woody Allen crafts a uniquely troubling, suspenseful and magically brutal, real drama.
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