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Plot. In 1935 with the Great Depression in full swing, New Jersey waitress Cecilia struggles with her stressful job and abusive marriage to her unfaithful husband Monk, whom she struggles to leave.
21 sty 2015 · The Purple Rose of Cairo’s hard truth about the frailty of art and artifice, and yet how its is always indispensable. This film shows both the danger of filmmaking’s world-building, as...
10 kwi 2023 · In THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, set in New Jersey during the Depression, movie-obsessed Cecilia (Mia Farrow) escapes the harsh realities of waitressing and a domineering husband (Danny Aiello) by repeatedly watching her current favorite—a champagne comedy also called THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO—until the film in which she is immersed, and Cecilia ...
The Purple Rose of Cairo. Comedy. 82 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1985. Roger Ebert. March 1, 1985. 4 min read. Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels in "The Purple Rose of Cairo." Life, of course, is never as simple and dreamy as the movies, and so the hero’s bold act has alarming consequences.
The Purple Rose of Cairo ★★★ 1985 (PG) A diner waitress, disillusioned by the Depression and a lackluster life, escapes into a film playing at the local movie house where a blond film hero, tiring of the monotony of his role, makes a break from the celluloid to join her in the real world.
At first glance, Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo seems like one of his more modest films, especially when placed beside such major film comedies as Annie Hall , Manhattan , and Hannah and Her Sisters. Yet despite its seemingly modest pretensions, Purple Rose offers some of Allen's most important reflections on the medium in which
in the purple rose of cairo, set in New Jersey during the Depression, movie-obsessed Cecilia (Mia Farrow) escapes the harsh realities of waitressing and a domineering husband (Danny Aiello) by repeatedly watching her current favorite—a champagne comedy also called THE
