Paper Moon

Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.

Plot
In 1936 Kansas, Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal team up as slick con-artists Moses Pray and Addie Loggins in this era. When "Moze" is unexpectedly saddled with getting the 9-year-old Addie to relatives in Missouri after the death of her mother, his attempt to dupe her out of her money backfires, and he's forced to take her on as a partner. Swindling their way through farm country, the pair is nearly done in by a burlesque dancer (Madeline Kahn) and an angry bootlegger.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The film stays faithful to the 1971 novel Addie Pray, which it has a few differences from the novel.
 * 2) Tatum O'Neal (who was young at the time of the release) gave an amazing performance as a young actor, Addie Loggins.
 * 3) *On the topic, Ryan O'Neal also gave amazing performance as Moses "Moze" Pray as well.
 * 4) Well done directing by Peter Bogdanovich.
 * 5) *Even Frank Marshall, (who was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment) did a well done producing the film.
 * 6) Moses "Moze" Pray and Addie Loggins are likable, and memorable characters that they gave amazing character development.
 * 7) The film's opening scene with an old film's intro is well made.
 * 8) The cinematography is amazing.
 * 9) Even though the film didn't have a soundtrack composer, the film retains a 1933's Paul Whiteman song "Paper Moon" at the beginning of the film.
 * 10) The setting of the mid-1930s midwest era, including Missouri and Kanas in the United States, is well done.
 * 11) Turning the film into the black and white screen is amazing for the 1930s era, as it makes you feel like you're watching an old film.

Crtictal response
The film was widely acclaim by critics and audiences alike, Tatum O'Neal waa also widespread praise from critics for her performance as Addie, earning her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest competitive winner in the history of the Academy Awards. The film holds a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Expertly balancing tones, Paper Moon is a deft blend of film nostalgia and finely tuned performances – especially from Tatum O'Neal, who won an Oscar for her debut." Metacritic assigned a weighted average score of 77/100 based on eight critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews" with an 8.7/10 user score rating. While IMDb has an 8.1/10 rating.

Roger Ebert gave the film his top four-star rating and commented that "a genre movie about a con man and a little girl is teamed up with the real poverty and desperation of Kansas and Missouri, circa 1936. You wouldn’t think the two approaches would fit together, somehow, but, they do, and the movie comes off as more honest and affecting than if Bogdanovich had simply paid tribute to older styles". Gene Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that Tatum O'Neal "is more than cute. Her role is something special in the well-established tradition of children on film."

Trivia

 * Tatum O'Neal was ten years old when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in this movie, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar in a competitive category. As of 2020, she still holds this record. She was four years younger than her rival nominee, Linda Blair, in The Exorcist (1973).
 * Peter Bogdanovich didn't like the title of the novel "Addie Pray", but wasn't sure whether "Paper Moon" was good enough; so he asked his mentor Orson Welles what he thought about it. Welles replied, "That title is so good, you shouldn't even make the picture, just release the title!"
 * The film spawned an very unsuccessful TV series Paper Moon (1974) starring Jodie Foster.

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