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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Barbara Horan, Cameron Mitchell, Bill Macy, John Welsh, Mark Linn-Baker, Peter O'Toole, Basil Hoffman, Anne De Salvo, Tony DiBenedetto, Adolph Green, Gloria Stuart, George Marshall Ruge ...MORE

Cast: Barbara Horan, Cameron Mitchell, Bill Macy, John Welsh, Mark Linn-Baker, Peter O'Toole, Basil Hoffman, Anne De Salvo, Tony DiBenedetto, Adolph Green, Gloria Stuart, George Marshall Ruge, Lou Jacobi, Joseph Bologna, George Wyner, Selma Diamond, Jenny Neumann, Lainie Kazan, Corinne Bohrer, Jessica Harper ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, World cinema

My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin which tells the story of a young comedy writer. It stars Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Lou Jacobi, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Selma Diamond, Cameron Mitchell, and Gloria Stuart. O'Toole was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was adapted into an unsuccessful 1992 Broadway musical of the same name. Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), the narrator, tells of the summer he met his idol, swashbuckling actor Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole). In the early days of television,... MORE

My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin which tells the story of a young comedy writer. It stars Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Lou Jacobi, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Selma Diamond, Cameron Mitchell, and Gloria Stuart. O'Toole was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was adapted into an unsuccessful 1992 Broadway musical of the same name. Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), the narrator, tells of the summer he met his idol, swashbuckling actor Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole). In the early days of television, Benjy works as a junior comedy writer for a variety show starring Stan "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna). As a special upcoming guest, they get the still famous (though largely washed-up) Swann. However, when he shows up, they realize that he is a roaring drunk. Kaiser is ready to dump him, until Benjy intervenes and promises to keep him sober during the week leading up to the show. As Benjy watches out for Swann (or at least tries to keep up with him), they learn a lot about each other, including the fact that they both have family they try to hide from the rest of the world. In Benjy's case, it's his LESS