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Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about My Favorite Year |
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King Kaiser (Bologna) needs some better variety in his television variety show. He doesn't mind whose toes he steps on as long as the schtick has the audience rolling in the aisles. The team of writers thinks it would be great to have Alan Swann (O'Toole) as a guest. The concern is the reputation this well-past-his-prime star has dissolute, eccentric behavior. Benjy Stone, the junior-most writer on staff, is assigned to babysit his idol until showtime – several days away. He wants to do well and impress his colleagues and his cute co worker (Harper). But Swann's erratic behavior may prove too much for a nice young boy to handle.
There are direct parallels to reality in the film. The Kaiser show is not unlike Sid Cesar's “Your Show of Shows” and the Swann character is very much a swashbuckling bon vivant patterned after Errol Flynn.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of My Favorite Year |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- wild
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a deadline
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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