Paper Moon (1973)

Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins... (imdb)
Country: USA
Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich
Written By: Alvin Sargent, Joe David Brown
Starring: Randy Quaid, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Noble Willingham, P.J. Johnson, Jessie Lee Fulton, Desmond Dhooge, Burton Gilliam, James N. Harrell, Lila Waters

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Basically classic cinema with a New Hollywood attitude. Charming and talented child actress, looks beautiful, great direction. What's not to like?
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The pairing of real-life father and daughter pays off big time here; Tatum and Ryan are delightful. Normally kids with attitude are annoying and the death of a film, but that is not case here for Addie is genuine in her independence. And Moses similarly sincere, at least in his relations with Addie (they both seek to deceive all others). Bogdanovich does so very well to conjure a sense of what (it seems) the 1930s were like. The Randy Quaid appearance is also good value.
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Enjoyable. It's the story of two con artists (perhaps father and daughter) who start out by trying to con each other. I really struggled with whether I wanted to keep seeing more of their escapades or to see them reform. Although it's a pretty simplistic plot, the attention to other details, like lighting and backgrounds and costumes, is quite impressive, and helps bump what should have been an average movie into an above-average category.
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Paul F Tompkins was great in this
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This is a really quaint and lovely film - I liked the nostalgic element of it.
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This was delightful! The chemistry between the O’Neals is so nice, and Tatum definitely deserved the Oscar for that performance. Really nice photography and it skips along well.
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Gnalkthere | 85 73% |
It felt like a Chaplin comedy but...this is better than all of his talkies
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There's so much to love and enjoy about this movie that I don't know where to start. Addie and Moses have amazing chemistry, and their adventures are not just fun to watch, they're also morally interesting. Both have a strong yet different sense of morality, and they clash often. There's also something incredibly satisfying about seeing the 30's portrayed in a much more modern and sophisticated visual style. What a lovely, breezy, wholesome, charming and seriously engaging movie this is.
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Excellent performances all around. The only thing that really bothered me was some of the set design. I'm almost certain that was a cardboard sea.
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I was thinking tonight about the scene where a young girl tries on jewellery in the mirror and how it was the best scene in Alice in the Cities, but I realised that was the wrong film. This is a far superior road movie and movie about adult man and young girl relations, really hitting a fine line line of sentimentality and realism without crossing over into either field too much. A riveting and entertaining watch, just for the cons themselves, but the O'Neals help make it work.
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Unfortunately found this a tad cloying, even though it is original enough (so, good script). Despite this, the duo are unconvincing vagabonds, and so reminded me very much of the motif of their characters, throughout history I guess, but - more despair - more pertinently in saccharine Hollywood cinema. I cannot quite extricate the parts of thirties cinema that I hate away from this evocation. In short, I didn't like it all that much.
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Many praise the b&w cinematography by Kovacs (and appropriately so), but the lack of score and use of silence is essential in maintaining a hushed melancholy in the down moments between the comedic bantering of its leads. The lead performances are incredible - Bogdanovich did wonders with the nuanced expressions of Tatum. However, Ryan O’Neal is absolute perfection here from his first moments on screen. How many films have made you fall in love with its characters so effortlessly?
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Wonderful story.
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