Watch: Ten clips from The Purple Rose of Cairo

Watch: Ten clips from The Purple Rose of Cairo January 2, 2017

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“Heaven, I’m in Heaven…”

I just discovered that ten clips from my official second-favorite film of all time, The Purple Rose of Cairo, were posted to Fandango’s Movieclips YouTube channel about two weeks ago. The clips contain about 28 minutes of footage altogether, or just over a third of the film’s 82-minute running time. I wouldn’t recommend watching them without seeing the entire film first, but they do contain some of the film’s funniest and most poignant moments. Check them out below (though several of them, for some reason, currently require you to watch them at the YouTube website itself).

1: Cecilia (Mia Farrow) tries to forget her sorrows by watching a movie over and over, and one of the characters — Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) — takes notice:

2: The immediate aftermath of Tom Baxter’s departure from the movie screen:

3: Tom discovers some big differences between the real world and the movie world:

4: Cecilia meets Gil Shepherd (also Daniels), the actor who played Tom Baxter:

5: Cecilia is “inspired” by the imaginary man in her life:

6: Tom gets philosophical with some prostitutes before learning what they do:

7: “I just met a wonderful man. He’s fictional, but you can’t have everything”:

8: Cecilia visits the movie world:

9: Cecilia makes her choice between fantasy (Tom) and reality (Gil):

10: The bittersweet finale; I wrote extensively about this scene here:


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