VH1 | July 28, 2014 9:27 am

By Christopher Rosa

If you watched Woody Allen‘s latest film, Magic in the Moonlight over the weekend, you may have noticed something fascinating about its romantic leads: Emma Stone and Colin Firth have a 28-year age difference between them. This example of a May-December romance is drastic but — bolt from the blue, bolt from the blue — not uncommon in Allen’s films.

The director must have a fascination with the older man, younger woman affair because this sort of pairing runs rampant in his filmography. From his critically acclaimed musical-comedy Everyone Says I Like You (1996) to kooky crime fare like Small Time Crooks(2000), several of his pictures feature at least one cradle-robbing run into, no matter how brief. We’ve assembled 10 particularly salacious pairings with the approximate age each actor or actress was at the time of filming. Some have 20, 30 or even 40-year age gaps. In other terms, some of these actors could have run for head before their co-stars were even born. To each his own, we guess.

Check out the gallery above to find out where Magic in the Moonlight falls in the spectrum of Allen’s largest May-December romances on-screen.

[Photo Credit: Sony, Miramax]

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