The greatest movie ever made..!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

During the Great Depression, a poor, unhappily married woman seeks solace in the movie theaters. Mia Farrow stars as the lead, and she's fantastic and heartbreaking as a woman beaten down by life. She gets scolded at work, and her husband, Danny Aiello, treats her terribly. The only time she feels peace and comfort is when she watches the film The Purple Rose of Cairo. It's magical for her to watch the classic actors—Jeff Daniels, Edward Hermann, John Wood, Deborah Rush, and Karen Akers—repeat the adventurous and romantic plot over and over again on the big silver screen.This isn't my all-time favorite Woody Allen movie—that title is reserved for Hannah and her Sisters—but I always enjoy this hopeful romance whenever I watch it. I'm a Mia Farrow fan, and she's just as sweet and likable in this as she is as Hannah. The portion of the film that shows the old movie is totally authentic. Often, actors feel contemporary or as if they're trying too hard, but everyone on the silver screen really seems like a 1930s actor. The extra dose of makeup, the movements, delivery of their lines, and camera angles will make you think it really is an old movie, and the recognizable faces have been photoshopped in! There's a surprise in the plot, and if you look it up on IMDb, you'll probably read about it. My advice is to just watch it and let the surprise unfold. Many times in Woody Allen movies, his characters find comfort by watching movies. If you identify with that familiar plot point, feel that the best people are often fictional, or ever wished you could interact with movie stars, you'll probably love this movie.

Whenever I feel like I should watch something to raise my spirit, I find myself looking through Woody Allen movies. This is one of those movies that leaves you entertained and amazed at his creativity and imagination. Imagine your favorite character walks out of the movie and comes to you to ask you out and you are so desperate because your marriage is a mess. Plus, he/she is so innocent, kind and good- looking. You are taken to a new level, a level that releases you from your real life pain. The audience is readily tempted to imagine himself in his shoes. This is a movie inside a movie and reality and fiction are hard to distinguish. The characters come and go back to the screen which is played as part of the plot. It must take imagination to write a piece like this, a piece Woody Allen easily comes up with. The hard line between reality and fiction is cleared at the end, though: The main character is deceived by the famous Gil Shepherd who makes promises and forces her to make a choice to save his reputation. Only when she opts for the real instead of the movie character will she realize that the real life is not that rosy.

Mia Farrow lives in the world of make-believe, the world of old Hollywood. Her neglectful husband, played by Danny Aiello, doesn't help at all. She watches movies every chance she gets, even watching the same film over and over. The images blend, the thin line thins. In yet another viewing of an old musical/adventure tale, one of the characters, played by Jeff Daniels, turns to her and starts talking to her, even coming out of the celluloid projection. He has come to life. What's so extraordinary is that others see this, too! It's not like only Mia can see him. Jeff's real existence creates havoc. People want their money back. The movie moguls in Hollywood get wind of it, hoping against hope for no lawsuit. But most importantly, the cast left behind has nothing to do because they can't go to the next scene without him. But Jeff Daniels doesn't want to go back in the film. He is having too good a time with Mia. Jeff Daniels plays two roles in this Woody Allen film. Don't get confused. The character who jumped out of the movie screen and the actor who played him, who is asked to go this town to get him to go back into the film. Even if "The Purple Rose of Cairo" contains flaws and is not perfect, it proves one thing – Woody Allen can really tell a tale, can really wrap you into a world of fantasy. He is a master of his craft, as he spins a web of tall tales come to life with zany results. Van Johnson has a role in the film's film that goes on and on. This has much ingenuity and charm, and Jeff Daniels may have his best movie role/roles of his career with this experience. But what becomes of the movie character Jeff? More importantly,what becomes of Mia! Is she destined to a part of the theater's atmosphere, to live there, to breathe there? Does she get a chance to live, to branch out, to be her real self? Sometimes what we want can be detriment to (or be in direct opposite to) what we need. The real world vs. fantasy! Only the purple rose knows….

In the days before watching Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, i thought that the story was going to be an adventure movie about a man who goes to Cairo, Egypt to find a purple rose, but turns out I was sort of right. The movie tells the story of a poor waitress named Cecilia (played by Mia Farrow) who wants to escape her horrible marriage all because of her abusive husband Monk (played by Danny Aiello whose performance is very similar to both Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Robert De Niro in Raging Bull), for which Cecilia watches movies to cheer herself up. One day after Cecilia is done with her waitress job she watches an adventure movie called The Purple Rose of Cairo five times in a row, and during the fifth time one of the characters Tom Baxter (played by Jeff Daniels) ends up escaping the theater screen and into the real world and at the same time ends up falling in love with Cecilia, but when that first happens the movie leaves us with one question and that is how he is going to be put back into the screen in which he escaped from along with the help of Gil Sheperd (again played by Jeff Daniels) who obviously played Baxter in the movie. One time when Woody Allen was asked on what he thought that his film was about and he said "Some critics said that The Purple Rose of Cairo was only about the movies, when I think all this movie is about is the difference between fantasy and reality." though I do agree with both critics and Allen himself. Allen blends both fantasy and reality in a way never seen before with brilliance. This movie is a true Woody Allen classic.