After years of marriage, Alfie and Helena are getting divorced, this is mainly due to Alfie's midlife crisis and lust for a much younger woman called Charmaine. Whilst Helena seeks guidance from a fortune teller her daughter is also facing troubles of her own. Sally works in an art gallery work whilst her husband stays at home hoping to write a novel that repeats the success of his first.
As Sally faces up to the reality that her life is far from perfect, she decides that maybe her boss is the right man for her; whilst all of this is going on her husband is also seeking the affection of beautiful woman whom he convinces to break her current engagement because he convinces her that she gives him inspiration. As Helena's beliefs in the fortune teller grow she develops a new confidence and faith whilst Alfie discovers his new wife has been unfaithful to him and has fallen pregnant.
Throughout the story, the characters endeavour to avoid creating problems but in the process seem to make them worse.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Freida Pinto, Antonio Banderas, Lucy Punch, Pauline Collins, Ewen Bremner, Eleanor Gecks, Christian McKay, Philip Glenister, Pearce Quigley, Jim Piddock, Celia Imrie, Anna Friel, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Theo James, Christopher Fulford, Johnny Harris, Meera Syal, Anupam Kher and Zak Orth.
Released in the UK on 18th March 2011