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17 Movies Pairing Older Actors With Much Younger Actresses (Photos)

David Fincher's "Mank" is the latest Hollywood film with a huge age discrepancy between the actors playing an onscreen couple -- in this case, 29 years between Gary Oldman and Tuppence Middelton. (That's all the more jarring since screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his wife, Sara, were the same age in real life.) Here are other examples of Hollywood's mismatched casting choices.
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Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" (1990)
Touchstone Pictures
Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in "Sabrina" (1995)
Constellation Entertainment
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in "As Good As It Gets" (1997)
Tristar Pictures
Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in "A Perfect Murder" (1998)
Kaufman Films
James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Secretary" (2002)
Slough Pond
Jack Nicholson and Amanda Peet in "Something's Gotta Give" (2003)
Columbia Pictures
Choi Min-sik and Kang Hye-jung in "Oldboy" (2003)
Egg Films
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in "Lost in Translation" (2003)
Focus Features
Steve Martin and Claire Danes in "Shopgirl" (2005)
Touchstone Pictures
Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba in "Sin City" (2005)
Dimension Films
Alan Rickman and Jayne Wisener in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007)
DreamWorks Pictures
Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz in "Elegy" (2008)
Lakeshore Entertainment
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in "Get Smart" (2008)
Warner Bros.
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (2009)
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich in "Stone" (2010)
Millennium Films
Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (2011)
Columbia Pictures
Colin Firth and Emma Stone in "Magic in the Moonlight" (2014)
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Aging stars are still being paired romantically with actresses who could be their daughters, in films from ”Pretty Woman“ to ”The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo“

David Fincher's "Mank" is the latest Hollywood film with a huge age discrepancy between the actors playing an onscreen couple -- in this case, 29 years between Gary Oldman and Tuppence Middelton. (That's all the more jarring since screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his wife, Sara, were the same age in real life.) Here are other examples of Hollywood's mismatched casting choices.

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17 Movies Pairing Older Actors With Much Younger Actresses (Photos)

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