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Apr 19, 1985 · The Purple Rose of Cairo: Directed by Woody Allen. With Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman. In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Woody Allen
- 1985-04-19
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Inspired by the films Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Pirandello 's play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), it is the tale of a film character named ...
The "Purple Rose of Cairo" is audacious and witty and has a lot of good laughs in it, but the best thing about the movie is the way Woody Allen uses it to toy with the very essence of reality and fantasy. The movie is so cheerful and open that it took me a day or two, after I’d seen it, to realize how deeply Allen has reached this time.
Van Johnson. Larry. Unhappily married Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Mia Farrow) earns the money while her inattentive husband, Monk (Danny Aiello), blows their meager income on getting drunk ...
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- Woody Allen
- PG
- Mia Farrow
Cecilia, a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression, is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film to raise her spirits. Much to her surprise, Tom Baxter walks off the screen and into her life.
Jan 21, 2015 · The Purple Rose of Cairo’s hard truth about the frailty of art and artifice, and yet how its is always indispensable. This film shows both the danger of filmmaking’s world-building, as well as ...
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In fact, The Purple Rose of Cairo clearly shows its debt to Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. (1924), as well as Fellini's The White Sheik (1952), in the way it playfully blurs the line between fantasy and reality. One of the most unique features about The Purple Rose of Cairo is its remarkably downbeat ending, which provoked the wrath of his studio Orion.
