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| Juliana Donald plays a theater worker who's very cute in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Year: 1985 Rates: **** |
As creative as PLAY IT AGAIN SAM is, with Humphrey Bogart appearing to
Woody Allen's movie-buff character with advice on dames, the Depression-era PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
goes much further, deeper, with Jeff Daniels as both the actor, Gil
Shepard, who brought a character, Tom Baxter, to life, literally...
Written for the screen and having walked right through it, not only
tired of being stuck in the celluloid purgatory and wanting to delve
into the real world, he's smitten with Farrow's underdog cinefile, who he'd noticed in the audience during matinee
screenings, again and again: Farrow's Cecelia lost her job after her husband cheats right in front of her face: the theater is
her only place to remain safe, and sane...
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Danny Aiello with Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo
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Like
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE a year earlier, some of the best shots are
literally that: inserts of various and wonderfully mundane people's reactions, especially those within
the movie theater while the actors, left on the screen during Tom's absence, argue among themselves (as theater workers Irving Metzman and Juliana Donald look on)...
Meanwhile,
in a pivotal role, Danny Aiello plays Cecelia's crap-shooting, cheating and abusive husband, Monk, with Stanley Kowalski bravado. And in B&W up there is Edward Hermann and Deborah Rush, waiting for their cohort to return. The only drawback is that Daniels as the actor also falls for Mia, and their romance hinders her "fictional person" romance that's not only cut short but leads to an anti-climatic turnout.
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Mia Farrow in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
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| Danny Aiello in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO |
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Mia Farrow in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO with Jeff Daniels
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| Deborah Rush with John Wood and Edward Hermann in The Purple Rose of Cairo |
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| Mia Farrow in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO with Jeff Daniels |
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| Irving Metzman with Juliana Donald in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO |
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Dianne Wiest and Glenne Headly in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO with Jeff Bridges
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Glenne Headly in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO with Jeff Bridges
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