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why so expensive?

posted 14 years ago by Diego_rjc
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in the trivia section, it says that this cost about 26 million dollars to make and that it's the biggest budget in a Woody Allen movie to date. I love Woody, and I fairly liked this flick, but I didn't see anything that costs a lot in the movie. So I wonder: where did they spend all that money?

[–] DwightFry 13 years ago

Maybe the jewels were for real?

Otherwise, I'm just as puzzled. Visually the movie looks made-for-TV cheap.

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[–] plwblj 10 years ago

...could be because of the many top stars which were featured;