My Favorite Year (1982)
Directed by Richard Benjamin · 92 min · Comedy, Drama
34.2 TOPICAL score · #3,171 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
My Favorite Year (1982, directed by Richard Benjamin) has a TOPICAL score of 34.2 - ranked 3,171 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and awards, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Critics: 97% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.9/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 6.6/10 (122 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 19 languages.
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- Critics97% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.9/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 6.6/10 (122 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 19 languages
- Still read11,456 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Peter O'Toole (actor #100), Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper (actor #1,582), Joseph Bologna