Anna and Dan later meet and, after she reveals to him that the divorce papers have been signed, Dan realizes she has had sex with Larry. She asks him to sign their divorce papers, and he bargains with her- she agrees to sleep with him so that he will sign the documents and thereafter leave her alone. He asks her to have sex with him, but she refuses.

He asks her real name, and she tells him it is Jane Jones. One day, Larry runs into her accidentally at the strip club. Heartbroken by her loss, Alice becomes a stripper once again. Eventually Anna and Dan each confess the affair to their respective partners, leaving their relationships for one another. They cheat on their respective lovers for a year, even though Anna and Larry marry halfway through the year. Dan persuades Anna to become involved with him. Larry knows that Alice and Dan are a couple from talking to Anna. Soon, Anna and Larry become a couple.įour months later at Anna's photo exhibition, Larry meets Alice, whom he recognises from the photograph of her in tears, which is being exhibited. Anna tells Larry that Dan was most likely to blame for the setup. Larry goes to the rendezvous, where he by chance meets Anna and learns that he is the victim of a prank. With Anna still on his mind, Dan pretends to be her, and invites Larry to meet at the aquarium, where Anna told Dan she often went. Alice doesn't tell Dan what she heard and their relationship continues, but Dan spends a year brooding over his interest in Anna.Īnother year later, Dan enters a cybersex chat room and converses with Larry Gray ( Clive Owen), a British dermatologist. While being photographed, she reveals to Anna that she overheard them, and she is photographed while crying. Anna agrees, and Alice asks Dan to leave them alone during the photoshoot. Alice then asks Anna if she can have her portrait taken as well. While she uses the bathroom, Dan tries to persuade Anna to have an affair with him but their conversation is cut short by Alice's return. While being photographed to publicise it, he flirts with the American photographer Anna Cameron ( Julia Roberts). They soon become lovers.Ī year later, Dan has written a novel based on Alice's life.

Dan asks her name, which she gives as Alice Ayres. On their walk back from the hospital, they stop by Postman's Park. During a busy morning in London, writer Dan Woolf ( Jude Law) meets a beautiful American woman ( Natalie Portman) after she is hit by a car, not used to the direction of traffic in England.

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