Film

My Favorite Year

1982 · 1h 32m · Comedy · Drama

The year the dreams came true.

IMDb

7.3

Rotten Tomatoes

97%

Metacritic

62

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.

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

Corinne Bohrer

Bonnie

• Richard BenjaminDirector
• Norman SteinbergScreenplay
• Dennis PalumboStory · Screenplay
• Joel ChernoffProducer
• Michael GruskoffProducer
• Gerald HirschfeldDirector of Photography
• Ralph BurnsOriginal Music Composer
• Richard ChewEditor
• Ellen ChenowethCasting
• Lois PlancoCasting

My Favorite Year Official Trailer #1 - Peter O'Toole Movie (1982) HD

Release date

October 1, 1982

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

PG

Budget

$7,900,000

Revenue

$20,123,620

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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