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My Favorite Year (1982) [PG]

Release Date:
October 1, 1982

Original Title:
My Favorite Year

Alternate Titles:
Anul meu preferat
Berusad av framgång
Det var tider
Ein Draufgänger in New York
L'ospite d'onore
Legkedvesebb évem
Meu Ano Favorito
Mi año favorito
Mitt favoritt år
My Favorite Year
My Favourite Year
Mój najlepszy rok
Où est passée mon idole?
Um Cara Muito Baratinado
Vuosi huipulla
Мой лучший год
Най-любимата ми година

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Brooksfilms
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  CA: PG  FI: K-12  PT: M/6  SE: 11  US: PG 

Runtime: 92

The year the dreams came true.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Assistant Editor:
Howard Heard

Assistant Sound Editor:
Mia Goldman

Associate Producer:
Art Levinson

Camera Operator:
Richard Edesa

Casting:
Ellen Chenoweth
Lois Planco

Construction Coordinator:
Michael J. Smith

Costume Design:
May Routh

Dialogue Editor:
David B. Cohn

Director:
Richard Benjamin

Director of Photography:
Gerald Hirschfeld

Editor:
Richard Chew

First Assistant Camera:
Marc Hirschfeld

First Assistant Director:
William S. Beasley

Gaffer:
Lou Tobin

Graphic Designer:
Arthur Gelb

Hairstylist:
Ruby Ford
Carol A. O'Connell

Makeup Artist:
Daniel C. Striepeke

Music Editor:
Jeff Carson

Music Supervisor:
Harry V. Lojewski

Negative Cutter:
Brian Ralph

Original Music Composer:
Ralph Burns

Producer:
Michael Gruskoff
Joel Chernoff

Production Design:
Charles Rosen

Production Illustrator:
Mentor Huebner

Production Sound Mixer:
Jerry Jost

Property Master:
Sal Sommatino

Screenplay:
Dennis Palumbo
Norman Steinberg

Script Supervisor:
Marie Kenney

Second Assistant Camera:
Donald E. Thorin Jr.

Second Assistant Director:
Duncan Henderson

Set Decoration:
Donald J. Remacle

Set Designer:
Kandy Stern
Gregory Pickrell

Sound:
Duncan McEwan

Sound Effects Editor:
John H. Arrufat

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Bill Varney
Steve Maslow
Gregg Landaker

Still Photographer:
Len Hekel

Story:
Dennis Palumbo

Stunt Coordinator:
Victor Paul

Stunts:
Norman Howell

Supervising Sound Editor:
Robert Grieve

Unit Production Manager:
Art Levinson

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