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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Ryan O'Neal, Jessie Lee Fulton, Noble Willingham, P.J. Johnson, Randy Quaid, Tatum O'Neal, James N. Harrell, Lila Waters

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Road movie, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white, Comedy, Period piece, Black comedy, New Hollywood

Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and Missouri. It starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moze and Addie. The story follows con man Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) and young Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), an orphaned daughter of a prostitute. Because Moze had once had an... MORE

Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and Missouri. It starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moze and Addie. The story follows con man Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) and young Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), an orphaned daughter of a prostitute. Because Moze had once had an affair with her mother (and because the girl "has his jaw"), there is speculation that he is in fact Addie's father (which he denies). Moze is charged with bringing Addie to her aunt's home. Along the way, Moze manages to convince the brother of the man who drove his car into a tree, killing Addie's mother, into giving him two hundred dollars for Addie. Addie overhears this conversation and later demands the money. Because he spent nearly half of the money on car repairs, Moze agrees to travel with Addie until he has raised two hundred dollars to give to her. Addie soon learns how Moze makes his LESS