Midnight in Paris (2011)
- The incredible score for Midnight in Paris was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Woody Allen's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- Before Owen Wilson was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
Midnight in Paris is a 2011 American romantic comedy-fantasy written and directed by Woody Allen. Owen Wilson stars as Gil Pender, a nostalgic Hollywood screenwriter vacationing in Paris with his materialistic fiancΓ©e Inez, played by Rachel McAdams, who discovers that at midnight he can step into a vintage car and be transported to 1920s Paris, where he drinks with the Fitzgeralds, gets writing advice from Ernest Hemingway played by Corey Stoll, has his manuscript critiqued by Gertrude Stein played by Kathy Bates, and falls for Adriana, a muse played by Marion Cotillard. Woody Allen's gentle meditation on nostalgia β specifically the trap of idealizing the past at the expense of the present β was his most commercially successful film, earning $151 million worldwide on a $17 million budget.
Corey Stoll's Hemingway, speaking in clipped, declarative sentences about courage and death, was the film's most delightful supporting performance. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and proved that Allen could still create magical, widely beloved films when the material was right.
