As Benjamin becomes younger, he turns into the handsome, fortyish Brad Pitt, and he has an affair with a vibrant, normally aging dancer (Cate Blanchett).

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The heroine, the fortyish Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), has left her husband, a rich, distinguished barrister (Simon Russell Beale), and is living in a dreary bed-sit in London with a former R.

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Although Billy Crystal, the star and moving force, still gets a mite dewy-eyed and message-y (this time about brotherly love), he manages to parody as well as act out the fantasies and sensitivities of fortyish urban males.

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