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1973
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. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie.
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In the early 1970s, a time when the post-WWII prosperity in many countries began to crumble, film-makers became interested in the 1930s, the last era with economic woes of a similar magnitude. Some sought disturbing parallels with their own time, while others approached that period with unhidden nostalgia. One such film was *Paper Moon*, the 1973 comedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The plot, based on the novel *Ad…More
