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Paper Moon
Directed by
Peter Bogdanovich
PG
1973
1h 42m
Comedy
,
Crime
,
and more
8.1
91%
94%
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During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
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Cast of Paper Moon
Tatum O'Neal
Addie Loggins
Ryan O'Neal
Moses Pray
Madeline Kahn
Trixie Delight
John Hillerman
Deputy Hardin / Jess Hardin
Jessie Lee Fulton
Miss Ollie
Noble Willingham
Mr. Robertson
Randy Quaid
Leroy
P.J. Johnson
Imogene
James N. Harrell
The Minister
Burton Gilliam
Floyd (Desk Clerk)
Hugh Gillin
2nd Deputy
Desmond Dhooge
Cotton Candy Man
Art Ellison
Silver Mine Gentleman
Lila Waters
The Minister's Wife
Bob Young
Gas Station Attendant
Jack Saunders
Station Master
Jody Wilbur
Cafe Waitress
Liz Ross
The Widow Morgan - Pearl
Yvonne Harrison
The Widow Bates - Marie
Ed Reed
The Lawman - Bates' Home
Dorothy Price
Ribbon Saleslady
Eleanor Bogart
The Widow Stanley - Elvira
Dorothy Forster
The Widow Huff - Edna
Lana Daniel
Moze's Girlfriend
Herschel Morris
The Barber
Dejah Moore
Salesgirl - $20 Bill
Ralph Coder
Store Manager
Harriet Ketchum
Store Customer
Kenneth Hughes
Harem Tent Barker
George Lillie
The Photographer
Floyd Mahaney
Beau - Hardin's Deputy
Gilbert Milton
Leroy's Father
Tandy Arnold
Leroy's Brother
Dennis Beden
Leroy's Brother
Vernon Schwanke
Leroy's Brother
Rose-Mary Rumbley
Aunt Billie (as Rosemary Rumbley)
Paper Moon Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wonder how many moviegoers will be prepared for the astonishing confidence and depth that Tatum brings to what's really the starring role.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film never makes up its mind whether it wants to be an instant antique or a comment on one.
Unseen Films
Nathanael Hood
O'Neal leaves a continent-sized impact crater in the center of the film, delivering an instantly iconic performance none have been able to replicate.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
It is distinguished by its moral tone, and it is the tone that lifts it above the average flim-flam comedy.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...grows more and more absorbing as it progresses...
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
It is very fussy about period detail, and goes to some length to evoke the dim days of Depression America, while just about everything else is left to slide.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
[Paper Moon] is exactly what we have in mind when we talk nostalgically of what movies "used to be"--meaningful rather than metaphorical, engrossing rather than exploitative, humanistic in their comedy and their sentiment.
Boston Phoenix
Janet Maslin
Of all the nice things that can be said about Paper Moon, perhaps the nicest is this: it's the first new film in a long while that's as enjoyable as it is good, and absolutely first-rate in both departments.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
The problem with Paper Moon is that it's hollow at the center. The central relationship, involving a small-time con man and a tough little girl who practice a Bible-selling racket in the Midwest during the Depression, remains undeveloped and unaffecting.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
Peter Bogdanovich, using all of the hootchie-kootchie at his command, plus Ryan O'Neal, and even more importantly, O'Neal's nine year old daughter Tatum, has made an ingratiating comedy.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The images (by Laszlo Kovacs) have a lovely dusty openness -- a realistic view of the Midwestern flatlands fading into a romantic memory.
Variety
Variety Staff
Tatum O'Neal makes a sensational screen debut.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
A small but near-flawless gem-as well as a testament to the kind of eccentric film that could a big hit back then...
Chicago Daily News
David Elliott
Bogdanovich has learned the oldest trade in Hollywood -- he doesn't direct the movie, he directs the audience. He doesn't have the tonic vision of the artists he admires, Wells and Ford; he has the commercial acumen of the first-class hacks.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
The mix of hard-times drama and cheeky humor sets off the touching relationship between the two survivors.
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
The picture demonstrates that in the head of a writer given to swooning and to creating swoons a criminal may seem an admirable character.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
Father and daughter are a delight when pulling a con together...
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 dramedy Paper Moon offers a kind of synthesis of his prior two critical and commercial hits.
The Blu Spot
Jeff Beck
Paper Moon combines charming characters/performances, excellent direction, a marvelous screenplay, and remarkable period details to give us a delightful classic that has proven to be one of the director's most popular & enduring works.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Tatum's angry glares at the idiotic adults surrounding her character alone warranted the Oscar.
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