Broadway Danny Rose
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Movie Reviews of Broadway Danny Rose
Movie Review: You will love this schnook
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with all the other reviewers that this is one of Woody's best laughers. There is nothing deep about this movie, but the characters and lines are something I have peppered my woeful life with since viewing this movie in 1984. Basically, Danny Rose gets into all this trouble and to quote him," I haven't done anything." This is true. The phrase that I live by is that "no good deed goes unpunished." All Danny is trying to do is hit a little success with Lou Canova, his washed-up singer. He promotes Lou at the expense of his other "acts" including PeeWee (the son he never had} and the lady that plays the glasses. Danny dispenses sanguine advice especially to his balloon folders as he advises them to "start with the giraffe and then build to the elephant." He makes the acquaintance of Lou's girlfriend, Mia Farrow, who becomes irate when her friends tell her Lou was seen with a "cheap blonde." Danny reassures her this is not true because "Lou only cheats with one person at a time." Anyway, the plot thickens as she seeks the advice of Angelina, the fortune teller who dispenses advice from her bed to the waiting masses. A couple learns they will be visted by a man in a suit and they ask when, and Angelina replies, "When you least expect it." This is not funny here, but it is funny in the movie.Anyway, Danny winds up running for his life after confiding to Farrow in a diner that his whole life is based on guilt. As he noted one of his family members said, "We are all guilty in the eys of God." Farrow then asks him if he believes in God, and Danny answers, "No, but I'm guilty about it."
For lines and a sweet movie that will leave you laughing and feeling good, I recommend this movie. Then go rent "Moon Over Parador," another movie no one has seen, but has great lines and performances by Richard Dreyfuss and Raul Julia.
Movie Review: 2 times a charm
Summary: 5 Stars
After my first viewing of Broadway Danny Rose, I was extremely dissapointed. I just didn't "get" it. I did not think it was about anything, and that it contained none of the humor, wit, and philosophical musings about life that Woody had so perfectly achieved before and since (see Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters). I couldn't have been more wrong. I decided to watch the film again, to determine exactly what about it that so many people loved so much . I was truly mystified. But during that second viewing, I really began to soak in the message about the lovable "loser" Woody plays, not to mention the fact that I couldn't stop laughing! How could I have missed this stuff before? This is Woody at his most subtle best, in a masterpiece comparable and perhaps even surpassing Manhattan (another one that took me a few times to appreciate).
Bottom line: if you are looking for pure slapstick, watch Bananas or Sleeper. If you are looking for a deep, thought-provoking drama, watch Crimes and Misdeameanors. But if you are looking for a subtle charmer that deals with the little problems of life in an original, compelling way, watch Broadway Danny Rose (and Manhattan).
Movie Review: A dare-devil manager in search of the bliss!
Summary: 5 Stars
Seeking desperately by all means Woody Allen will boost career over the hill singer Apollo Forte. This decade finds Woody immersed in high creative spirit. If the seventies consolidated his irreverent and caustic profile, he turns inside the human soul trying to understand, scrutinize and feed the most intimate desires. If Woody has to place across the frontier between the struggling reality and the illusory universe on the screen, he will cross that line and bringing back to real world, supporting them, and showing us those characters also live, suffer and have to fight against their particular demons.
In this dreamily circumstances the reality 's terrible weight seems to diminish, when it' s faced against the pretended inaccessibility and assumed invulnerability of the fiction characters. Somehow Woody returned to the mythical meaning and psychical roots of the cinema understood like the possible land and not only a Fantasy land. He opened a new gate and in that is why I consider it as one of the most creative proposals of this unexhausted filmmaker.
Splendid cast and innovator script. A resonant triumph.
Movie Review: A gem! Possibly Allen's best.
Summary: 5 Stars
This, I think, is Allen's finest film. Now, I realize that just by writing that, some people are going to rate my review unhelpful, but truth comes at a price. This film is the ultimate combination of comedy and drama. By drama, I'm not talking about the thrills and scares of Allen's and Farrow's characters being chased by the mob. No, I mean the tender-hearted struggle of Allen's character trying to break through Farrow's steel-cold facade. The cinematically beautiful climax can be seen in the film's last scenes.
I've never seen Farrow do better work or look more lovely than in Broadway Danny Rose. Her character's transformation is subtle and uplifting. Nick Apollo Forte's performance is brilliant and hilarious. I must surmise that he is just being himself because there is not one false step in his character. The rest of the cast is excellent and I can't get enough of that NYC/Yiddish schtick. In closing, Broadway Danny Rose is proof positive that something good DID emerge from the 1980s. In my opinion, this is the best of movie of it's genre.
Movie Review: Could be Allen's Best Film
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is more subtle in it's humor than Woody Allen's earlier work but in my opinion it is one of his funniest and finest films. The Danny Rose character is a lovable mensch who is armed with a collection of family anecdotes and philosophy to suit any occassion. Allen is hysterical in the role of a fast talking yet struggling talent agent representing a variety of acts that are going nowhere. His big chance is an Italian lounge singer who had a hit record in the 50's. The singer is in love with the widow of a mafia 'juiceman" (played to perfection by Mia Farrow). When Danny Rose is sent to pick her up and escort her to a show at the Waldorf chaos ensues.The story is presented as a reminiscence told by one of a group of older Jewish catskill resort type entertainers who are gathered at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan trading Danny Rose stories.
One of the obvious strengths of this movie is the authentic NY patois whether Jewish or Italian. The scenes with Mia Farrow and Allen are extremely funny.
The film is in B&W.