Broadway Danny Rose [VHS] | Woody Allen, Mia Farrow | great movie, fun, excitemnet, drama, etd, etc

Broadway Danny Rose [VHS] | Woody Allen, Mia Farrow | About as charming as the stage from which is borrows its name...

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highly recommended

Often overlooked, Broadway Danny Rose has developed a cult following among select Woody Allen fans; Chris Rock, of all people, says it's one of his favorite films. Allen plays a devoted talent agent for acts whose talent is, shall we say, marginal. But one of his clients, a faded singer named Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), suddenly has a chance to perform for a record executive. Nervous, Canova insists that Rose bring his girlfriend to the show--unfortunately, his girlfriend is Tina Vitale (Mia Farrow), the wife of a big-time mobster. (Farrow's performance is superb and unlike anything else in her career: loud, brassy, and comically obnoxious.) Part caper, part-show biz satire, Broadway Danny Rose would make an excellent companion to Paper Moon; both are a delightful combination of nostalgia and cutting observations about human nature. --Bret Fetzer

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great movie, fun, excitemnet, drama, etd, etc

What a wonderful story, I have lived this movie!!!

Buy it, you won't be sorry.

About as charming as the stage from which is borrows its name...

Loud, abrasive and genuinely charming, `Broadway Danny Rose' is one of Woody Allen's `hidden gems'. Not many have had the pleasure to its company since not many have even heard of it. It has taken a backseat to his more famed work, yet in my opinion, this is one of his best ventures.

The film follows a talent agent, Danny Rose, as he attempts to `do right' by his most talented act, washed up singer on the verge of a comeback, Lou Canova. Canova is two-timing his wife with the obnoxious (in a god way) Tina Vitale. Canova has a big opportunity come his way and the only way he feels he'll make the most of it is if Vitale is there, but Canova's wife presents a problem and so Canova convinces Danny to pose as his beard, picking up Vitale and sporting her as his girlfriend. When Danny (hesitantly) goes to pick up Tina, he is met with an adventure he never expected, an adventure that includes fortune tellers, gangsters, parade balloons and betrayal.

With influences stemming from all walks of cinema (from De Sica to Bogart to Bogdanovich to obvious Jazz Era adoration), `Broadway Danny Rose' is chuck full of reasons to love it.

One cannot really call Woody Allen a great actor. To be bluntly honest, he has one character that he plays in every film. Sometimes he hits the nail on the head, other times he falls short. It all really depends on the film he's crafted around his shtick. Here, he works beautifully (and I have to say, the tenderness with which he plays his final scenes adds a really nice touch here). Nick Apollo Forte is genuinely effective here and deserved a nomination as Supporting Actor, for he shines up beautifully. This film BELONGS to Mia Farrow though. She is a revelation as Tina. It reminds me in a way of Michelle Pfeiffer's turn in `Married to the Mob', but Farrow has a little more edge and spunk to her turn here. She chews up every ounce of scenery, adding depth and color to what could have been a clichéd stock character. She is fun, witty, charming (in her own little way) and adorably OVER-THE-TOP!

With gags that almost always land (the helium scene is priceless) as well as banter that reminds me of the best of Tarantino (having the story told by a group of comics was genius) and performances that were all ROBBED of Oscar nominations (I give my win to Farrow BTW), `Broadway Danny Rose' deserves more than a standing ovation, it deserves pleadings for an encore!

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A lovely modern fable

A sweet, fun, well-told, Damon Runionesque fable about a well meaning if pathetic theatrical manager who gets caught up with the mob. Perhaps it's not quite as amazing or ground-breaking as Allen's very best films, but there's a touching, gentle, funny humanity that runs through it all.

Mia Farrow gives what is arguably the strongest performance of her career -- she certainly stretches way beyond her usual image-- to play a tough, gum chewing mafia gun mol. It's also interesting to see Woody play a bit more of a 'character' than usual. The film is full of lovely black and white images, though it's not as visually striking as the greatest of the Gordon Wills/Allen collaborations like 'Manhattan'.

If you have any interest in Allen's work (and if you're a film fan it's hard not to), then it's well worth seeing - or re-seeing.

It's also yet another of Allen's films that's 'currently unavailable' -- a very disturbing trend among his films. Hopefully this indicates a series of forthcoming re-releases and perhaps upgrades to blu-ray, but it's been months since even the classic 'Annie Hall' officially went out of print, with no announcement about a replacement. I worry that this could be one of those rights battles or other situations that deprives film fans of some of the greatest cinematic works. So you might consider stocking up on Allen's work while you can!

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Woodrow Woody

Woody Allen will certainly go down in history as a very good film maker, but this film and several others I can think of place him as one of America's great preservationists. Woody works very hard to recreate lost worlds, here the world of vaudeville, the hustler days of B'Way, lost to real estate development (Rockefeller Center) and skyrocketing real estate prices, among other things. Woody like his Jewish counterparts Neil Simon and Mel Brooks loved this world of bimbos and hoodlums. Woody is all sentiment and comedy; as in "Bullets Over Broadway," he can't find anything to criticize. This is a love letter to a world long gone, if it ever actually existed. Curiously, the last effort to give homage to this world came in the first act of the recent "King Kong," an equally well-crafted recreation, without the love and humor of Wood Allen.

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