The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo film poster
Directed by	Woody Allen
Produced by	Robert Greenhut
Written by	Woody Allen
Starring	Mia Farrow Jeff Daniels Danny Aiello
Music by	Dick Hyman
Cinematography	Gordon Willis
Editing by	Susan E. Morse
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date(s)	March 1, 1985
Running time	84 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 USD
IMDb profile

The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 English language film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Film and a César Award for Best Foreign Film; his screenplay was nominated for several major awards, including an Oscar, a BAFTA Award and a Writers Guild of America Award. It was recognized as one of the "ALL-TIME 100 best films" by Time magazine, and Allen has said several times that this is his personal favorite of all the films he has made.[1] Image File history File links Rosa-purpura-do-cairo-poster02. ... Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Robert Greenhut (March 18, 1942) was an American producer. ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945), is an American actress. ... Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton in a scene from the TNT cable network remake of The Goodbye Girl Jeff Daniels (born February 19, 1955 in Athens, Georgia) is an American actor. ... Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. ... Dick Hyman Joke: What is the difference between Dick Hyman, and a regular Hyman? A regular hyman goes away when penetrated by a penis. ... Gordon Willis (born May 28, 1931 in Queens, New York) is a highly respected Hollywood cinematographer best known for his work on the The Godfather series and on some of Woody Allens most popular films. ... Orion Pictures Logo Orion Pictures Corporation was a American movie production company, formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Picture winners: Categories: | ... César Award for Best Foreign Film: 2005 : Lost in Translation (USA), directed by Sofia Coppola 2004 : Mystic River (USA), directed by Clint Eastwood 2003 : Bowling for Columbine (USA), directed by Michael Moore 2002 : Mulholland Drive (USA), directed by David Lynch 2001 : In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong), directed... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

The Purple Rose of Cairo is the name of a film-within-the-film, with Jeff Daniels playing the dual roles of Tom, a character in the film-within-the-film, and Gil, the actor who portrays Tom. Tom literally breaks the fourth wall, emerging from the black-and-white into the colorful real world on the other side of the cinema's screen. He's drawn out by Cecilia (played by Mia Farrow), a film buff who goes to the movies to escape her bleak Great Depression life and loveless marriage to Monk (Danny Aiello). The producer of the film finds out that Tom has left the film, and he and Gil fly cross-country to the New Jersey theater where it happened. This sets up an unusual love triangle involving Tom, Gil and Cecilia. Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton in a scene from the TNT cable network remake of The Goodbye Girl Jeff Daniels (born February 19, 1955 in Athens, Georgia) is an American actor. ... The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ... Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945), is an American actress. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... A love triangle refers to a romantic relationship involving three people. ...

A number of the scenes featuring Tom and Cecilia are set at the Bertrand Island Amusement Park, which closed just prior to the film's production. Bertrand Island, New Jersey, is a small peninsula in Lake Hopatcong, part of the community of Mt. ...

Allen's opinion

In a rare public appearance at the National Film Theatre in 2001, Allen listed The Purple Rose of Cairo as one of only a few of his films that ended up being "fairly close to what I wanted to do" when he set out to write it. Allen provided more detail about the film's origins in a comment he made a year earlier, during a press junket for Small Time Crooks: The used book sale in front of the National Film Theatre The National Film Theatre is located on the South Bank of the river Thames in London. ... The movie junket commonly occurs in movie marketing. ... Small Time Crooks is a Woody Allen comedy starring Woody Allen himself and Tracey Ullman. ...

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Purple Rose was a film that I just locked myself in a room [to write].... I wrote it and halfway through it didn't go anywhere and I put it aside. I didn't know what to do. I toyed around with other ideas. Only when the idea hit me, a long time later, that the real actor comes to town and she has to choose between the [screen] actor and the real actor and she chooses the real actor and he dumps her, that was the time it became a real movie. Before that it wasn't. But the whole thing was manufactured.

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Cast

Farrow, Daniels and Aiello play the leading roles. Actors playing significant roles in the film-within-the-film include Van Johnson, Zoe Caldwell, John Wood, Milo O'Shea and Edward Herrmann. Dianne Wiest and Glenne Headly (among others) play prostitutes whom Tom innocently encounters along the way. Van Johnson Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Wood (born 1930) is an English actor. ... Milo OShea (born June 2, 1926 in Dublin, Ireland) is a character actor, recognizable for his bushy eyebrows, resounding voice and impish smile. ... Edward Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American television and film actor. ... Dianne Wiest as Interim District Attorney Nora Lewin in Law & Order Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri) is two-time Academy Award-winning American actress in stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career. ... Glenne Headly (born on 13 March 1955 in New London, Connecticut, USA) is an American actress. ...

Box office

The Purple Rose of Cairo opened in North America on March 1, 1985 in 3 theatres, where it grossed an exceptional $114,095 ($38,031 per screen) in its opening weekend. Box office settled down upon further expansions, and its total gross of $10,631,333 was in line with most Woody Allen films of the period[2]. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ...

External links

• The Purple Rose of Cairo at the Internet Movie Database
• The Purple Rose of Cairo from Time magazine
• Roller coasters, Aristotle, and the films of Woody Allen. a 2001 article from the Literature Film Quarterly
• Woody Allen 2001 interview at the National Film Theatre
• Woody Allen interview during the press junket for Small Time Crooks