My Favorite Year
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1982-10-01
Runtime: 92 mins
Director: Richard Benjamin
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Original title: My Favorite Year
Production Companies: Brooksfilms, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Peter O'Toole
Mark Linn-Baker
Jessica Harper
Joseph Bologna
Bill Macy
Lainie Kazan
Anne DeSalvo
Basil Hoffman
Lou Jacobi
Adolph Green
Tony DiBenedetto
George Wyner
Selma Diamond
Cameron Mitchell
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