My Favorite Year (1982)

United States of America

Comedy, Drama

Brooksfilms, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan

Richard Benjamin

Dennis Palumbo, Dennis Palumbo, Norman Steinberg

Taglines: The year the dreams came true.

new york city, alcoholism, live television, acting, 1950s

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.

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