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Summary: Perfect Film
Review: Everything about this film from start to finish is perfect. The acting, story, direction, period filming. The choice to film it in black and white was a great one. It has drama, comedy, suspense, and never loses your attention. I have watched it over and over thoughout the years and I never get tired of it. There aren't many films you can say that about. You can really picture a Moze and Addie driving around Depression-Era Kansas selling bibles. Best Scene: Addie refusing to eat her Coney Island and yelling in the cafe, "I want my 200 dollars!" to Moze who realizes he has met his match in this nine year old girl. Great fun!
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Summary: Highly enjoyable and funny classic.
Review: This excellent little film from director Peter Bogdanovich is very funny, very entertaining and just an all-round feel good movie. It is very stylish and has great atmosphere.The story is about a common hustler (Ryan O'Neal) who, in order to score a few bucks, volunteers to drive a recently parentless girl (Tatum O'Neal) to her Aunt's house. The plan is to make a few bucks through blackmail with her and then send her on a train to her Aunts but through various events and circumstances they find out that they are a pretty good pair of hustlers. They pull various schemes and make a lot of money along the way to her Aunt's house. The acting is the film's greatest virtue. Ryan and Tatum O'Neal both do excellent jobs with their roles. They play off of each other perfectly, creating some very funny scenes purely through looks or a feeling between the two. Madeline Kahn is hilarious as a prostitute that Ryan picks up along the way. She plays the perfect floozy and has a great scene with Tatum on a hill. The directing is great. It gives the whole film an old-fashioned feel through style and the use of black and white. The film feels like the 1930's and that adds a nice touch. It's no "The Last Picture Show" but still defiantly worth a viewing from anybody who likes movies. Thanxs...
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Summary: One of the great American films...evocative and poignant
Review: Any doubt regarding Ryan O'Neal's talent for acting may be put to rest with a critical analysis of the work that he turns in here, which is extraordinary in all its variegated nuance. "Paper Moon" should have been included on the AFI's top hundred--indeed, its non-inclusion on the list deems this list worthless, in my opinion. Tatum O'Neal's reading of the recently orphaned Addie is nothing short of extraordinary--complex, and egaging, in its own right. The screenplay plays poignant homage to the psychology of the 'abandoned' Addie, with such beauty, and accurateness, that it almost hurts. In the hands of director Peter Bogdanovich, Alvin Sargent's screenplay (based on the novel, "Addie Pray," by Joe David Brown) comes alive in ways that he himself perhaps never could have imagined. I hope that others will 'adopt' this gem, a touching film that will certainly survive the test of eternity.
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Summary: Endlessly appealing!
Review: I have loved this film since I saw it at the age of 7! Tatum O'Neal is wonderful, as are all the cast. Kudos to Madeline Kahn and Ryan O'Neal. Great nostalgic atmosphere. I loved the 30's tunes and 'Jack Benny' off the radio. The character of Imogen is a hoot! There are so many great scenes and quotable dialogue ("Yes, Miss Trixie", "This little girl give me a fi' dollar bill and I giv'er change!", "Of course ya' know everything is in the bone struct'cha..."). I never get tired of seeing this one!
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Summary: LOVABLE TUMBLEWEED
Review: I was 12 when I first saw it at the movies in a little town in Georgia, and the sight of Tatum in a tank top sulking and pouting and smoking naturally stole my heart. But it's her dad who steals the show here. He nails every scene just right, especially once he takes up with Miss Trixie. ("We're just givin her a ride, that's all. She has a high school diploma!") Apart from sassy badinage between the ONeals and Kahn, however, most of the dialogue is stilted and the movie sputters along just like Mose's old Model T. It's a slow-moving film by today's standards, and not afraid to let silence to the talking from time to time. Why do I love it? Prolly because it feels right for its time and place. It's like a tumbleweed blowing across the road, in a small Midwestern town.
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Summary: SUPERB SURPRISE
Review: Tatum O'Neal is so knowing in her portrayal of Addie that you can hardly believe she was 10 at the time. She deserved the Oscar. Ryan O'Neal rarely has been so pitch-perfect. And Madeline Kahn is radiant and truly hilarious as Trixie Delight, as is her under-appreciated servant-girl. The writing is tight, never cloying, and explores an interesting relationship at a peculiar moment in American history. This movie is lean, funny, moving and resonant on every level. One to own.
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Summary: EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!
Review: I rented this movie for my son, who dearly loves it. This is a wonderful, refreshing movie! A must see for all ages!
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Summary: This is my first rememberance of a movie!
Review: I saw this movie on the telly when I was about 9-10 years old. (And what an impression I got!) I fell totally in love with the little girl (she was at same age as myself), but she didn't behave as normal. She smokes, swears and screams. Back then I didn't know her name was Tatum O'Neal and this was her debut-film and that she won an Oscar. But I know this movie was the one who got me interested in movies. Ofcoz I've read about how Tatum O'Neal's life and career has turned out, and it's kinda sad. But I will always hope the best for Tatum, for her role in 'Paper Moon' will always be in my heart.
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Summary: Great father/daughter film.
Review: This film is classic in it's self due the fact that it was made in black and white when most films at time were all made in color. Tatum O'Neal truly deserved her Oscar for her performance. It's shame she couldn't quality roles as an adult. Great cameo by Madeline Khan.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie
Review: This is my favorite movie!! It is funny, kind of sad(but not really) and really captures the essence of the 30s era and closeness between two people. Since none of the summaries up ^there^ really give good summaries, I'll do it for you. It opens at the gravesite of a young woman. We learn she is the mother of 9 year-old Addie. During the service (which only four people attend), Moses Pray, a friend of the deceased, shows up. Since young Addie is now an orphan, he is given the responsibility of taking her to her aunt's. He reluctantly consents, and on the way Addie hears Moses(who is a con man) scam a guy for two hundred dollars using Addie as bait. Addie, who is not really innocent at all, demands that Moses give her the money, but by then he has spent it. So she follows him on his 'day job', selling bibles to widows, telling them their late husbands ordered it. Addie catches on and makes Moses money faster than he ever has before. But before Moses can drop Addie off at her aunt's house, she gets the two of them in deeper and deeper, gets rid of Moses' girlfriend, and, finally, when you think they've got it made, they stumble onto a dark shed behind a hotel and the real trouble starts.... The best part of this film is when Moses opens Addie's picture when he is alone in his truck. I think that moment kind of sums up the whole film.
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