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...gentleman under suspicion is Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), a moneyed chap who is polite to the point of blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
...woman I could recognize. She was allowed to be her age, [while] Aaron's character is a Peter...
...Burton, her boyfriend] is a bit of a Peter Pan, but a good one. He definitely has a big child in him. There's no inner child. It's all outer...
...abet in the crime. The natural conflict between the government and the press should be resolved by the legislative and judicial branches. It would benefit our society to have those cases taken to court. Nobody has the right to reveal information that could threaten our national security. Peter Smith Castle Rock, Colorado...
Prominent among these potshots is the casting of Australian Hugh Jackman (“X-Men”) as Peter Lyman, the son of a British Lord who Sondra meets—and subsequently falls for—while investigating a string of murders. Most of Allen’s skittishness seems to be rooted in the loss of the mutual understanding he had with New Yorkers, and the need to find something similar in London. A few delightful moments of Woody Allen 101 ensue, as when he explains to a British Lady, “I was born into...