Café Society (2016)

In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.

Director:

Woody Allen

Writer:

Woody Allen

Stars:

Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell

7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steve Carell	...	Phil Stern
Sheryl Lee	...	Karen Stern
Todd Weeks	...	Oscar
Paul Schackman	...	Al
Jodi Carlisle	...	Maid
Jeannie Berlin	...	Rose
Ken Stott	...	Marty
Richard Portnow	...	Walt
Jesse Eisenberg	...	Bobby
Sari Lennick	...	Evelyn
Stephen Kunken	...	Leonard
Laurel Griggs	...	Evelyn's Daughter
Corey Stoll	...	Ben
Saul Stein	...	Ben's Hood
Gabriel Millman	...	Ben's Hood

Storyline

In 1930's Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil's nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica "Vonnie" to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a boyfriend, a journalist that travels most of the time. However, Vonnie's boyfriend is indeed a married man that is also in love with her and soon she has to make a choice between her two loves.

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Plot Keywords:

hollywood on hollywood | 1930s | uncle | high class | older man younger woman marriage | 

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Taglines:

Anyone who is anyone will be seen at Café Society.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violence, a drug reference, suggestive material and smoking

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [France]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Hebrew

Release Date:

5 August 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Café Society

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$359,289, 17 July 2016

Gross USA:

$11,103,205

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$43,763,247

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gravier Productions, Perdido Productions, FilmNation Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Color (ACES)

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the first film since Twilight (2008) that Kristen Stewart had to audition for to win the role.

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Goofs

When Leonard asks Evelyn "What are you keeping from me?" and walks towards her, a reflection of the camera is visible in a picture frame on the wall.

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Quotes

Phil Stern: Two time Academy Award winner.
Bobby: Wow, congratulations.
Howard: Thank you. You've never heard of me, I'm a writer.

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Connections

References The Seventh Seal (1957)

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Soundtracks

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
Composed by James F. Hanley
Performed by Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks

User Reviews

That teardrop on the elegant profile

Woody Allen's latest, which opened yesterday in Paris and at the Cannes Festival, is a gentle and thoughtful examination of love. Jesse Eisenberg, best known for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, plays Bobby, a young New Yorker who heads out to Hollywood in search of an exciting future. He falls for Vonnie (Kristin Stewart of Twilight fame), the secretary of his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a successful producer, and is soon confronted with the fact that she has a mysterious lover. The resulting confusion is worthy of Allen's mentor, Anton Chekhov. In an interview in the French magazine l'Obs, Allen remembers his own experience in Hollywood, talking to a producer who cut him off to take a call from Fred Astaire. We soon meet all of the rest of Bobby's family, including a gangster brother and a sister who is married to an intellectual, who offers such wisdom as the quotation, "Live every day like it's your last and some day you'll be right." With brilliant cinematography by Vittorio Storaro and great performances from Eisenberg, Carell and Stewart, the film is one of Allen's most enjoyable in years. The poster features a stylized profile of a woman with a teardrop - love always includes an element of sadness, even as it brings laughter and self-realization. A French review of the Cannes opening compares Allen to Ernst Lubitsch, master of urbane comedies of manners in the 1930's.