Movie
My Favorite Year
Overview
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Details
- Release date
- 1982-10-01
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Brooksfilms, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann
- Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone
- Jessica Harper as K.C. Downing
- Joseph Bologna as King Kaiser
- Bill Macy as Sy Benson
- Lainie Kazan as Belle Carroca
- Anne DeSalvo as Alice Miller
- Basil Hoffman as Herb Lee
- Lou Jacobi as Uncle Morty
- Adolph Green as Leo Silver
- Tony DiBenedetto as Alfie Bumbacelli
- George Wyner as Myron Fein
Crew
- Richard Benjamin - Director
- Norman Steinberg - Screenplay
- Dennis Palumbo - Screenplay
- Dennis Palumbo - Story
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