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Show all (13)Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) is a screenwriter and aspiring novelist. Vacationing in Paris with his fiancee (Rachel McAdams), he has taken to touring the city alone. On one such late-night excursion, Gil encounters a group of strange -- yet familiar -- revelers, who sweep him along, apparently back in time, for a night with some of the Jazz Age's icons of art and literature. The more time Gil spends with these cultural heroes of the past, the more dissatisfied he becomes with the present.
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Woody Allen’s beleaguered heroes have never been reluctant to indulge in a little fantasy to get what they want. In Annie Hall, the adult Alvy Singer summons Marshall McLuhan from thin air to silence an annoying movie patron. In The Purple Rose of Cairo, Mia Farrow’s lonely Depression-era movie addict finds companionship when Jeff Daniels’ adventurer steps off the screen and into her life. In the short story “The Kugelmass Episode,” a bored professor enters a magic cabinet and a passionate affair with Emma Bovary. (Full review)