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www.filmcritic.com - : If Radio Days is Woody Allen's love letter to radio, The Purple Rose of Cairo is his ode to old movies. Purple Rose, however, is about ten times as ridiculous, its conceit being that Jeff Daniels' Depression-era movie star walks right out of the movie screen to be with the girl in the audience (Mia Farrow) whom he loves. This of course causes havoc for the characters on the screen (who provide the most hilarity in the film) and the real people here on earth, who simply aren't prepared for a fictional character to become one of them. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : MGM's third and final boxed set of Woody Allen films predates the previous set of late '80s and early '90s titles, covering the beginning of the ''Mia and Woody'' era from ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' in 1982 to ''Radio Days'' in 1987. For many, this represents Woody's most experimental and creative period, a half-decade that spawned six utterly original and entirely different movies, at least two of which are bona-fide masterpieces and two more enduring classics. more...
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