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Sahar Ashiq
Isn't anyone really upset with the endig or is it just me?frankqb
An absolute delight of a romantic comedy. One of Woody Allen's best by far. This film contains one of my favourite lines form any film (and I'm roughly paraphrasing from memory): "I met the man of my dreams today. He's fictional, but you can't have everything."Brilliant.
Mattajaz
"Pour ginger ale on her!"harposboy
I've seen this a dozen times and it actually gets better every time. Hilarious and profound. A movie for movie lovers.ClassicLady
I’ve often wondered how people living during the Depression felt when they watched movies depicting the glamour and richness of life that they could never hope to have. Cecilia’s character gives me a little glimpse into what they might have felt.corchap
Adored this movie, very profound and romantic. I definitely feel this way when I watch old movies with Jimmy Stewart! Great quotes and true to life. We want the fairy tales but they can't fill the needs we want them too.Siskoid
Before The Last Action Hero there was... The Purple Rose of Cairo. This charming piece of magical realism has a movie hero come out of the screen and into Depression-era New Jersey for the love of a woman. But where another film might make him surprised there's another world out there, it rather takes what today we'd call the Pixar approach, with movie characters having feelings and knowing full well they are enacting the same story hundreds of times for an audience. There's actually a lot of world-building here. Amusingly, it's really happening. The characters on screen are incensed, the audiences bored, the media interested, and even the actor who gave him life is worried for his career and comes to town. Ultimately, this is a film about escapism where Mia Farrow needs to escape her dreary life, but it's the character on screen who literally escapes and makes her world more interesting. We've all experienced this kind of osmosis between the real world and the movie world in our imaginations. And though a picture may fascinate, there's soon another to take us on new journey - being a movie fan never gets stale - as attests the wonderful final shot of the film.wilyhawk
Finally a Woody Allen movie I didn't dislikewilyhawk
Wow! I didn't see that coming.dajmasta94
Woody at his best!juanittomx
A film for those who enjoy the movies :) although the ending didn't like me, but make feel the same way when I enjoy a movie I live it end when the movie ends it's the same feeling like in the end... until you see another movie :)arunraj
Tom Baxter's come down off the screen and he's running around New Jersey!... Nobody knows how it happened, but he's done it.No! No! Don't turn the projector off! No! No! It gets black and we disappear!
I'm bored with sitting around. I'm a dramatic character. I need forward motion.
FrankHowley
I loved this movie.george4mon
great film!!Drage3000
Most people seem to have enjoyed this movie but I couldn't get through with it. I found the characters incredibly 2 dimensional and flat, the female lead with no personality at all and her husband being the #1 worse husband in the world that it's just unbelievable. I thought it might have been for comedy but I can't find anything funny about an abusive and disrespectful husband. Was expecting romance but Tom Baxter was just totally disregarding whatever she had to say until at least the moment where I just stopped watching the movie. I did enjoy what was happening at the movie theater after Tom Baxter left the screen, it was absurd and fun. Not enough to make me keep watching. I expected a bit more from an 80's movie. Perhaps it was meant to feel like it was filmed in the 30's? I do enjoy movies of all eras and enjoyed other Woody Allen movies but I just didn't get this one.