The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 film by Woody Allen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy-romantic film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Inspired by the films Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), it is the tale of a film character named Tom Baxter who leaves a fictional film of the same name and enters the real world.
The Purple Rose of Cairo | |
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Directed by | Woody Allen |
Written by | Woody Allen |
Produced by | Robert Greenhut |
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Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
Edited by | Susan E. Morse |
Music by | Dick Hyman |
Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million |
Box office | $10.6 million[2] |
The film was released on March 1, 1985. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, while Allen received several screenwriting nominations, including at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Awards, and the Writers Guild of America Awards. Allen has ranked it among his best films, along with Husbands and Wives (1992) and Match Point (2005).[3]