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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
I am a huge Woody Allen fan and this is again a classic Allen movie with a lot of heart. Next to the brilliant comic lines and the inventive plot, there are some deeper emotions which the main characters have to struggle through, during the run of the story. It's this great mix between drama and comedy that makes Allen one of the very best filmmakers ever, in my opinion.
In this frame story, we have a bunch of comedians sitting at a table, telling eachother stories about a legendary talent manager named Danny Rose (played by Woody Allen himself). After some short, extremely funny stories, one of the comedians claims to know the most striking story about him and he starts telling the main story.
Danny Rose is working with a has-been crooner, Lou, who's having an affair with a blonde Italian girl, named Tina Vitale (played by Mia Farrow). When at a certain moment, Danny has settled a very important night at the Waldorf's for Nick, the singer wants his girlfriend to be there, so he can meet with her after his wife has left. He asks Danny to be his "beard" during the presence of his wife.
After some discussion, Danny agrees to do it and drives to the girl's house to pick her up, but he's way too early as usual. When he arrives, Tina is having a mental break down and she doesn't want to go with him, because a friend of her saw Nick with another "stupid blonde". Instead she flees away to an Italian family house. Danny follows her and when he arrives, a romantic admirer of Tina thinks Danny is Tina's boyfriend and he asks his two violent brothers to avenge him.
Together, Danny and Tina try to escape from the two brothers and get in a wild adventure together.
The hilarious dialogue gives the film a lighter mood, but during some more serious, yet still funny, conversations between Tina and Danny, the two main characters really start to open up to eachother (and to the viewer) and talk about their visions of life, the feeling of guilt and the fact that all of Danny's succesful former clients have left him for the faster and bigger money. What Danny doesn't know is that Tina told Lou, the singer, that he should get a better manager and that they actually spoke with a more influential manager a few days earlier (before Tina knew Danny). This gives the movie another very interesting dimension.
At the end, we see Tina finally getting to know the feeling of guilt and Danny having a Thanksgiving party with his other outcast clients and friends, who stayed loyal to him. You have to see the movie to see it all come together and of course for the many spectacularly comical, yet moving scenes.
I rate this movie:
+
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
I am a huge Woody Allen fan and this is again a classic Allen movie with a lot of heart. Next to the brilliant comic lines and the inventive plot, there are some deeper emotions which the main characters have to struggle through, during the run of the story. It's this great mix between drama and comedy that makes Allen one of the very best filmmakers ever, in my opinion.
In this frame story, we have a bunch of comedians sitting at a table, telling eachother stories about a legendary talent manager named Danny Rose (played by Woody Allen himself). After some short, extremely funny stories, one of the comedians claims to know the most striking story about him and he starts telling the main story.
Danny Rose is working with a has-been crooner, Lou, who's having an affair with a blonde Italian girl, named Tina Vitale (played by Mia Farrow). When at a certain moment, Danny has settled a very important night at the Waldorf's for Nick, the singer wants his girlfriend to be there, so he can meet with her after his wife has left. He asks Danny to be his "beard" during the presence of his wife.
After some discussion, Danny agrees to do it and drives to the girl's house to pick her up, but he's way too early as usual. When he arrives, Tina is having a mental break down and she doesn't want to go with him, because a friend of her saw Nick with another "stupid blonde". Instead she flees away to an Italian family house. Danny follows her and when he arrives, a romantic admirer of Tina thinks Danny is Tina's boyfriend and he asks his two violent brothers to avenge him.
Together, Danny and Tina try to escape from the two brothers and get in a wild adventure together.
The hilarious dialogue gives the film a lighter mood, but during some more serious, yet still funny, conversations between Tina and Danny, the two main characters really start to open up to eachother (and to the viewer) and talk about their visions of life, the feeling of guilt and the fact that all of Danny's succesful former clients have left him for the faster and bigger money. What Danny doesn't know is that Tina told Lou, the singer, that he should get a better manager and that they actually spoke with a more influential manager a few days earlier (before Tina knew Danny). This gives the movie another very interesting dimension.
At the end, we see Tina finally getting to know the feeling of guilt and Danny having a Thanksgiving party with his other outcast clients and friends, who stayed loyal to him. You have to see the movie to see it all come together and of course for the many spectacularly comical, yet moving scenes.
I rate this movie:
+