Rent My Favorite Year (1982)
3.5 of 5 from 73 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
- King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. Bu guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm no an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is Live! Directed by Richard Benjamin and inspired by incidents from comedy legend Mel Brooks' early career, 'My Favorite Year' is a Golden Age revisited, a zany, misty-eyed tribute to TV's early days. Academy Award nominee Peter O'Toole plays Swann. Once a swashbuckling movie idol whose face was plastered on fan magazines, Swann is now mostly plastered. And it falls to Cavalcade's rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) to keep him on the sober and narrow. Don't touch that dial.
- Actors:
- Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Anne De Salvo, Basil Hoffman, Lou Jacobi, Adolph Green, Tony Dibenedetto, George Wyner, Selma Diamond, Cameron Mitchell, Jenny Neumann, Corinne Bohrer, George Marshall Ruge, Amanda Horan Kennedy, John Welsh, Richard Brestoff
- Directors:
- Richard Benjamin
- Producers:
- Michael Gruskoff, Joel Chernoff
- Writers:
- Norman Steinberg, Dennis Palumbo
- Aka:
- My Favourite Year
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Films About Television: Part 1, A History of Films about Film: Part 1, Acting Up: British Actors at the Oscars, All the Twos: 1972-2012, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Mel Brooks, Top 10 Guest Houses On Film
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
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Reviews (1) of My Favorite Year
Overlooked comic delight - My Favorite Year review by Mr Aquarium
Set in the early 1950s days of US television, a young would-be comic writer has to chaperone an Erroll-Flynn type aging movie star into a live variety show performance. Peter O'Toole as the aging star - now often soused and terrified of live performance - does this brilliantly. The time and place is beguilingly recreated and the action is inventive, refusing to rely on simply playing the drunk card for laughs. Undervalued comic gem.
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