The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo

  • Director: Woody Allen
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 19, 1985
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: La rosa purpura de El Cairo
  • "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is a comedy romance directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow , Jeff Daniels , Danny Aiello and others. It was released in the United States on March 1, 1985.
    The film tells the story of the waiter Cecilia's obsession with the movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo". She is caught between the actor and the actor on the screen, struggling to find the line between reality and illusion   .

    Details

    • Release date April 19, 1985
    • Filming locations Bertrand Island Amusement Park, Mount Arlington, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $10,631,333

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $114,095

    Gross worldwide

    $10,631,333

    Movie reviews

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    • By Celestine 2022-04-23 07:02:35

      Face the reality don't give up the courage

      Seeing the first Woody Allen, a very novel form of expression makes people shine. Although I still don't quite understand why we clearly like each other but we can't be together, why there must be disappointment in reality, why we should be afraid of disappointment and hurt and not dare to love each other. . Am I living in a movie? Maybe it's just before a flower blooms, you can never predict how gorgeous or decaying this flower will be. You don't know that love will have such a big impact...

    • By Trevor 2022-04-23 07:02:35

      Humans are animals that make choices

      What you choose, you get what. .......... Non-stop guests. Leaving the restaurant, returning to the same cramped home, but also to serve a rude and rude man called her husband. In the chaos of war and desolation, there is only one theater to make her heart drift into the distance. One day, a man who had watched the movie 5 times lost to her fiery gaze, walked out of the screen for her and led her to run. Love comes too fast like a tornado, you can't do without the storm, there's nowhere to...

    • By Randy 2022-04-23 07:02:35

      Eight o'clock or Woody Allen is best?

      Is it better to watch Woody Allen at 8 o'clock? It's too interesting, this is my favorite movie I've watched him, and it's full of tenderness. Woody Allen knows best how to make the audience laugh without being annoyed and babbling. He also knows not to deliberately let women so-called growth or change. The unpredictable possession and the natural fiction in the movie are the real of life, very addictive but can't help but like it. The heroine's last stare and smile said that there is really...

    • By Derrick 2022-04-23 07:02:35

      Addicted to love surrender to life


      Movies are life, looking for the true self in repetition. Just like the sentence I saw at the subway station today, "We travel not for those scenery, nor to meet those people, but to meet the best self", if this is the case, if the me in love is not more Okay, so should I let go of this relationship? Process and results, the process should be more important! Thank you for meeting you at the best of times.

    • By Julianne 2022-04-23 07:02:35

      Movies can give people a brief moment of joy in a painful life, but people eventually have to return to life.

      "Movies can give people a short-lived pleasure in a painful life, but people eventually have to return to life." This may be Woody Allen's powerful concept in creating this film, and it can indeed be derived from You can feel it in the movie.

      But this movie only has a relatively new concept and story, but the plot framework is still very superficial, so that the ending is not difficult to guess, and of course there is no need to guess, because the director just wants you to understand...

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    • By Dwight 2023-08-13 12:10:26

      i just decided that if im ever in a bad mood i'll just watch a woody allen movie and feel so good about the terrible life all over...

    • By Nakia 2023-08-01 05:33:49

      Here's a metaphor for losing morals: the first 71 minutes of the 82 minutes, from foreplay to the feature film, made people come to climax, and the surprises continued, like seeing heaven, and then there was a phone call from TM at the 72nd minute... He spoke on the phone for three minutes. Then you realize that the heaven you saw was a mirage and it's gone, and you've been mumbled about it for four minutes, and the last three minutes of being on the...

    • By Brody 2023-07-31 09:54:54

      It is a dream of light and shadow that starts from time travel and is different from time travel, it is also the choice and reflection of love whose dream shines into reality, it is the alternation and game of the id and superego, and it is the back and forth switching and confusion of true and false...

    • By Celine 2023-05-16 04:59:24

      Is the movie perfect? Is reality still broken? Have regrets? The best movie without Woody Allen. I mean the...

    • By Mireya 2023-04-21 11:51:18

      8/10. The film is clever in the complex disputes between the realm of fantasy and reality: the characters left on the screen first quarreled with themselves, and then quarreled with the audience in the theater. The production company learned that the complaints from audiences everywhere felt that disaster was imminent, and the irony was that the actors could not control The characters I created, the behavior of the characters on the screen seems absurd (paying for props, thinking that there...

    Movie plot

    During the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, in a small town in New Jersey, the weak waitress Cecilia and her husband lost their jobs. Cecilia often went to the movies alone to kill her time. The adventure film of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" fascinated her deeply. When Cecilia saw the film for the fifth time, the actor Tom (Jeff Daniels) on the screen suddenly walked off the screen, expressed his gratitude and love to...
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    Evaluation action

    "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is a surreal film with a warm and touching plot, lively and interesting story, rich imagination, and approachable handling. It expresses the theme of "life is like a play, drama is like life". Annotate the interactive relationship between true and false. The film deeply embodies the gap between the film world and real life, the false happiness and the real tragic. At the end of the film, the housewife leaves...
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    Movie quotes

    • Cecilia: You don't love me.

      Monk: Baby, come on.

      Cecilia: You don't. You treat me bad and you beat up on me.

      Monk: Look, I hit you when you get out of line. I never just hit you, I warn you first. And then if you don't shape up, you get whacked.

    • Cecilia: There's a new movie at the Jewel.

      Cecilia's Sister: I didn't even get to see last week's.

      Cecilia: Oh, you missed it? It was wonderful. I love Jane Froman. James Melton plays - first, he's a hotel porter. Then he becomes a radio singer and then an opera singer. The music was just beautiful.

    • Delilah: Miss Rita, somethin' on your mind? Cause you ain't been yourself since you come back from them pyramids.

      Rita: No, it's nothing. I'll be okay.

      Delilah: I don't suspect it has anything to do with that explorer fellow, Mr. Tom Baxter.

      Rita: Now, why would you say that?

      Delilah: The way he speaks, all romantic-like.

      Rita: Yeah. Come on, Delilah. Draw my bath.

      Delilah: Yes, ma'am. Now, will you be wantin' the big bubbles or the asses' milk?