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My Favorite Year
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6.6Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Released: 1982-10-0192 minDir: Richard BenjaminComedy, DramaBudget: $7.9MBox office: $20.1M
Cast
- Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann
- Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone
- Jessica Harper as K.C. Downing
- Joseph Bologna as King Kaiser
- Bill Macy as Sy Benson
- Lainie Kazan as Belle Carroca
Themes
- new york city
- alcoholism
- live television
- acting
- 1950s
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
10,680 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
62/100
- Year
- 1982
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 8 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- television
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Richard Benjamin
- Cast member
- Basil Hoffman
- Composer
- Ralph Burns
- Cinematographer
- Gerald Hirschfeld
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 92
- FilmAffinity ID
- 961195
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1982-10-08
- title
- My Favorite Year
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- film editor
- Richard Chew
- distributed by
- Fandango at Home
- production designer
- Charles Rosen
- review score
- 97%
- capital cost
- 7900000
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