Dir.
director and screenwriter – Woody Allen
producers - Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson
camera – Darius Khondji
editor – Alisa Lepselter
production designer – Santo Loquasto
A PERDIDO production
intl. sales – FILMNATION
BG distributor – BS FILMS
cast:
Joaquin Phoenix (Abe Lucas), Emma Stone (Jill Pollard), Parker Posey (Rita Richards), Jamie Blackley (Roy), Betsy Aidem (Jill’s Mother), Ethan Phillips (Jill’s Father)
Abe Lucas is a philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. Soon after arriving to teach at a small town college, Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards, a lonely professor who wants him to rescue her from her unhappy marriage; and Jill Pollard, his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger’s conversation and become drawn in. Once Abe makes a profound choice, he is able to embrace life to the fullest again. But his decision sets off a chain of events that will affect him, Jill and Rita forever.