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About
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.
Theatrical
Oct 8, 1982
DVD / Blu-ray
Jul 9, 2002
Box Office
$20.1M
Budget
$7.9M
Return
2.5x
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Brooksfilms, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Full credits →P
Peter O'Toole
Alan Swann
M
Mark Linn-Baker
Benjy Stone
J
Jessica Harper
K.C. Downing
J
Joseph Bologna
King Kaiser
B
Bill Macy
Sy Benson
L
Lainie Kazan
Belle Carroca
A
Anne DeSalvo
Alice Miller
B
Basil Hoffman
Herb Lee
L
Lou Jacobi
Uncle Morty
A
Adolph Green
Leo Silver
T
Tony DiBenedetto
Alfie Bumbacelli
G
George Wyner
Myron Fein
S
Selma Diamond
Lil
C
Cameron Mitchell
Karl Rojeck
J
Jenny Neumann
Connie
C
Corinne Bohrer
Bonnie
G
George Marshall Ruge
Lord Drummond / Featured Player
A
Amanda Horan Kennedy
Lady Eleanor
J
John Welsh
Cubby Brown
R
Richard Brestoff
Stage Manager / Featured Player
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Quotes
See all →The Illusion of Heroism and Courage
Swann
Stone... I'm afraid. I'm afraid. That's why I couldn't get out of the car to see my Tess, my child.
Benjy
Alan Swann, afraid? The Defender of the Crown? Captain from Tortuga? The Last Knight of the Round Table?
Swann
Those are movies, damn you! Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that silly goddamned hero! I never was!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Facing Insecurities in Unexpected Situations
Benjy
Bring Allan Swann to Brooklyn?
Belle
Sure; what are you ashamed of?
Benjy
Everything!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
