Paper Moon is a 1973 American motion picture comedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. state of Kansas and it starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moses and Addie.
In September 1974, a television series called P...
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Paper Moon is a 1973 American motion picture comedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. state of Kansas and it starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moses and Addie.
In September 1974, a television series called Paper Moon, based on the film, premiered on the ABC television network, with Jodie Foster cast as Addie and Christopher Connelly (1941-1988) playing Moses. O'Neal and Connelly had appeared as brothers in the earlier ABC series, Peyton Place. However, it was not a ratings success and it left the air in January 1975.
It currently holds a 95 percent approval rating from critics, based on 22 reviews, at Rotten Tomatoes. While Vincent Canby of the New York Times found the juxtaposition of the saccarine-sweet plot with Laszlo Kovacs' stark black-and...
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