A bunch of old-time comedians eating at a deli recall the hopeless tireless talent manager of terrible acts, Danny Rose (Woody Allen). Lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte) is on the comeback and needs Danny's help with a problem. Lou is married with kids and having an affair with Tina Vitale (Mia Farrow) who was gangster Johnny's former girlfriend. Danny pretends to be Tina's beard which raises the ire of the jealous gangster and his momma.It's a charming combination of characters and feel of a particular world. Woody Allen's Danny Rose is utterly hopeless and endearing. Nick Apollo Forte fits the over-the-hill lounge singer although I would love the role to be played by an actual actor. Mia Farrow is simply great. This is a particular movie with its particular charm. There are a lot of unknowns in the movie. That's also part of the charm but at times, I wish for more experienced actors.

Woody Allen aka Mr.Cinema, as I lovingly call him, brings us a yet another Masterstroke with his 1984 classic 'Broadway Danny Rose'. A hilarious, memorable film, that works from start to end! 'Broadway Danny Rose' Synopsis: In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.'Broadway Danny Rose' is laugh-out-loud funny. Its a roller-coaster ride, where each character, have a certain absurdity & craziness associated with themselves. Mr.Cinema's Screenplay depicts a loser's story with a winning spirit. His Direction, on the other-hand, is as perfect as it can get. Cinematography is vast. Editing is nicely done. Performance-Wise: Mr. Cinema is simply brilliant as Danny Rose. He's insanely funny throughout. Mia Farrow is top-notch. Nick Apollo Forte does his bit well. On the whole, 'Broadway Danny Rose' is a comedic jewel.

Woody Allen plays Danny Rose a third rate Broadway talent agent whose star of the moment is Lou Canova an aging overweight former pop star who is making a comeback with a nostalgia craze.Things go wrong after Danny gets Lou a gig at the Waldorf Astoria and gets involved trying to get Lou's girlfriend Tina to show up.This is an amusing and an unusual movie...I started watching another Woody Allen film titled Another Woman but found it completely unwatchable and switched to this one which is far better. Long live Netflix streaming.Another Woman is so bad it made me wonder about the very caliber of Allen himself...how could he possibly have thought the script and story decent? Another Woman is a terribly serious dull morass of middle class relationship morality and chock full of female issues= a chick flick pseudo intellectual yuppie hell.Needless to say stay away from Another Woman but this film is decent entertainment.

This was an absolute delight, no way around it. Simple, hilarious and ultimately beautiful. I love the interesting ways that he structures his films and this one has one of the best techniques yet; the story is told as a story, told by a group of comics just hanging out at a restaurant shooting the breeze. It's a great way into the narrative and gives the film a very loose, vintage feeling. It truly does feel like a story that a veteran comic is telling around a table of friends. The black and white shooting helps even more in this interesting tone that he established, it all comes together beautifully.Usually Woody Allen's films benefit from their large casts of great scene-stealers but here he relies almost entirely on the chemistry between him and Mia Farrow and it was such a wise move. What we get is this delightful little adventure movie with the two of them constantly bantering with classic Woody dialogue, "I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect." I feel like Allen is underrated as an actor because people feel he always "plays himself", but I think he's great and always manages to add layers to his characters. Yes, there's the neurotic cynicism in everything he does, but there's always something more (and honestly even if there wasn't I would be fine watching him ramble on forever). In Deconstructing Harry there was the brutally sad undertones of a man who had spent his life trying to find happiness only to find himself alone and lost in his work, but here was a man who had spent his life trying to find happiness for others only to find himself used and abused. As wildly fun as a film like this is, there's also an aspect of it that absolutely breaks my heart.The final act was surprisingly solemn and depressing (although there's the classic smile of an ending), but the film shined brightest when Farrow and Allen were just being wild and bouncing off each other. Farrow was unrecognizable here, for a while I wasn't even sure it was her. Behind large sunglasses and a wild wig, she totally disappears and it's the most fun I've had watching a performance in a while. She is so in control and absorbed in this character, it's a riot. The two of them are tremendous in a wickedly entertaining film that in the end has a lot of heart and something important to say about the industry. Another work of Woody genius.