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Originally Posted by montréaliste
Yes, those years are packed with charm and melancholy, and the innocence vs unsavory stuff had me hooked from the first time I saw it with my dad when it came out. I was 12 yrs old.
Polly Platt’s Production design was masterful, even on a shoestring.
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I watch it every time I can. Madelaine Kahn gave a memorable comic performance as well. Addie's clever plot to pry floozie Madelaine from her surrogate (or perhaps real) dad was very funny. Addie became quite the con girl, in the various scams. Everybody trusts a cute little girl, and she knew it, and used her skills in scamming suckers to keep her with Ryan, who she came to see as a father (and perhaps he was, in the film as in real life). Ryan O'Neal gave his best performance here. But Tatum stole the show, along with the bleak depression scenery in Kansas and Missouri. Added some praise of Montreal above in the previous message.