This is a Woody Allen film. I got it used at the local used book/dvd store for a few trade credits. It takes place in the 1930's Depression. A young waitress becomes obsessed with going to the movies, as that is the only thing in her life that is positive. She has a menial job and lives with an adulterous, brute of a husband. She supports them both as a waitress in a diner. She escapes a few hours a day to the cinema where she sees a move, The Purple Rose of Cairo. One of the characters in the movie (played by a very young Jeff Daniels) steps out of the film to romance her. The movie star he represents (played also by Jeff Daniels) also woos her and she has to make a choice - to live in the movies or in real life.

This is a Woody Allen film so real life is always the pits. Guess which one she chooses? See the film and find out if you are correct.

Edward Herrmann, but then again I always like the father from The Gilmore Girls. He's brilliant in this as the lead actor in the movie that Jeff Daniels walks out of.

Mia Farrow. To me, she is always the same no matter what part she is playing. And I don't really care for her mannerisms. She doesn't garner a lot of sympathy from me and that is the whole point of the film - to feel Cecelia's pain.

The movie was entertaining and a cohesive story and that's more than a lot of films. It was made in 1984 so maybe then people still knew how to tell a story without a lot of b.s. thrown into the mix.

I still don't like Mia Farrow and I needed to like her in order to fully appreciate this film.

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