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Movies that feel like My Favorite Year (1982)
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.
If you loved My Favorite Year, the closest films we have are Real Life (1979), Whisky (2004) and Clockwise (1986). All three share My Favorite Year's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Genevieve (1953).
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If My Favorite Year hit the spot, these will too
Witty and playful in the same breath
Trades the stillness of My Favorite Year for an angle of its own
Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft
Witty drama in both cases
Both lean on play more than on comedy
New York City shapes both of them
Witty drama, and it commits to that
Comedy built on play, twice over
The same comedy instincts
Both lean on stillness more than on drama
The shared currency is stillness
The drama is handled with the same confidence
Comedy of the same temperament
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The best-reviewed films that share My Favorite Year’s defining feeling.
