Broadway Danny Rose

Infobox Film
name = Broadway Danny Rose


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director = Woody Allen
producer = Robert Greenhut
writer = Woody Allen
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starring = Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
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cinematography = Gordon Willis
editing = Susan E. Morse
distributor = Orion Pictures Corporation
released = 1984
runtime = 84 min
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0087003

"Broadway Danny Rose" is a black and white 1984 Academy Award-nominated film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen.

Synopsis

The plot concerns a hapless talent manager who, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. Mia Farrow costars. The story is told in flashback, as an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Talent agent "Broadway" Danny Rose (Allen) represents countless incompetent entertainers and one talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

Lou is having an affair with a woman, Tina (Farrow), who had previously dated a gangster. Lou wants her to accompany him to his big gig at the Waldorf Astoria, where he will perform in front of Milton Berle, who could potentially hire him for future gigs. At the singer's insistence, Danny Rose masquerades as Farrow's boyfriend to divert attention from the affair. However, Tina's ex-boyfriend is extremely jealous, and thinks that Danny's and Tina's relationship is real. He thus orders a hit on Danny, hoping he will win Tina back.

Box Office

"Broadway Danny Rose" opened on January 27, 1984 on 109 North American screens, grossing $953,794 ($8,750 per screen) in its opening weekend. When it expanded to 613 theatres on February 17, its results were less impressive - $2,083,455 on the weekend ($3,398 per screen). Its total gross was $10,600,497, off an $8 million budget. [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=broadwaydannyrose.htm]

External links

*imdb title|id=0087003|title=Broadway Danny Rose