My Favorite Year (1982)1h32
Comedy · Drama
Director Richard Benjamin (6.3 avg)
Also directed The Money Pit, Mermaids, My Stepmother Is an Alien, and 15 more
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.
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Cast
Peter O'Toole
Mark Linn-Baker
Jessica Harper
Joseph Bologna
Bill Macy
Lainie Kazan
Anne DeSalvo
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