My Favorite Year
“The year the dreams came true.”
1982•PG•1h 32m•6.6•Released
ComedyDrama
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.
Director
Richard Benjamin
Writer
Norman Steinberg, Dennis Palumbo
Budget
$8M
Revenue
$20M
Languages
English
Studio
Brooksfilms
Cast
Peter O'Toole
Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker
Benjy Stone
Jessica Harper
K.C. Downing
Joseph Bologna
King Kaiser
Bill Macy
Sy Benson
Lainie Kazan
Belle Carroca
Anne DeSalvo
Alice Miller
Basil Hoffman
Herb Lee
Lou Jacobi
Uncle Morty
Adolph Green
Leo Silver
Tony DiBenedetto
Alfie Bumbacelli
George Wyner
Myron Fein
Selma Diamond
Lil
Cameron Mitchell
Karl Rojeck
Jenny Neumann
Connie
Production
Company
Brooksfilms
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
Joel Chernoff
Producer
Michael Gruskoff
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