Magic in the Moonlight
2014
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Jul 17, 2015 · A tormented philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) considers murdering a corrupt judge to find meaning in his life.
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Philosophy professor Abe Lucas joins the faculty at Braylin College in Rhode Island. He is experiencing an existential crisis, depressed, sees no meaning in his life, and drinks excessively. Despite this, he catches the eye of two women: chemistry professor Rita Richards, and Jill Pollard, one of his students. Jill is in a serious relationship with...
On May 2, 2014, it was announced that Woody Allen would write and direct an upcoming film in which Joaquin Phoenix would star. On May 6, Emma Stone joined the cast, marking her second film collaboration with Allen, as she previously co-starred in Allen's romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight in 2014. On July 24, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley als...
On January 29, 2015, it was announced that Sony Pictures Classics had acquired all North American rights to the film, marking it the eighth Woody Allen film to be released by Classics. The film's first trailerwas released on April 29, 2015. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2015. The film began a limited theatri...
Box office
Irrational Mangrossed $4 million in the United States and Canada, and $23.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $27.4 million.
Critical response
Irrational Man received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 47% based on 206 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Irrational Man may prove rewarding for the most ardent Joaquin Phoenix fans or Woody Allen apologists, but all others most likely need not apply." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film scored 53 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicatin...
Irrational Man at IMDbIrrational Man at AllMovieIrrational Man at Rotten TomatoesJul 17, 2015 · Irrational Man. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Irrational Man," seemingly Woody Allen 's 328th motion picture, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a philosophy professor named Abe who becomes obsessed with murdering a judge, and Emma Stone as the awestruck student he romances. It is not merely a bad film.
Aug 7, 2015 · Irrational Man: Directed by Woody Allen. With Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Joe Stapleton, Nancy Carroll. A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.
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- 2015-08-07
Jul 16, 2015 · R. 1h 35m. By Manohla Dargis. July 16, 2015. In Woody Allen’s 1987 drama “September,” a writer and a physicist walk into a room (well, really, they’re playing pool) when the writer asks the...
May 15, 2015 · May 15, 2015 4:04am PT. Cannes Film Review: ‘Irrational Man’. Woody Allen contemplates the perfect murder (again) in a darkly funny, intellectually rigorous campus comedy. By Scott Foundas....
