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Paper Moon
Cast
Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman View AllCrew
Alvin Sargent (Screenplay), Peter Bogdanovich (Director) View All
Release: May 9th, 1973
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
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Bogdanovich Standoff: Paper Moon vs. The Last Picture Show
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Movie help for school paper
Hey, me and my group are doing a paper on gender roles in cinema and we need some help!
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I'm a big fan of Peter Bogdanovich, who himself was a big fan of Orson Welles...and well, Welles was big!..and Orson Welles was a mentor to Bogdanovich and gave him a few tips during shooting of Paper Moon.

Biggest reason the film works so well is absolutely brilliant performances by Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as Moses and Addie.

Based on a novel called "Addie Prey" by Joe David Brown, this story, set during the Great Depression in the Kansas bible belt, introduces us to a slick con man named Moses Prey, played by Ryan O'Neal, who arrives at the funeral of a woman he had a past with named Essie Mae Loggins and fin....