Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I remembered little of this film from a previous viewing but was vaguely aware that I had been disappointed. Watching it again, I found it very hard to enjoy. I realise Woody Allen feels some empathy with the bunch of past it stand ups reminiscing in the diner but they mean nothing to me. Neither was I drawn or even amused at the list of Allen's clientele of failed has beens, one legged tap dancer, one armed juggler and all. I did find the New York and New Jersey location shooting attractive and did find the film picked up a bit towards the end. I enjoyed the little escapade with Allen and Farrow dodging through grasslands and crossing the Hudson but there was just too much or Allen fussing repeatedly with the same gestures and even dialogue. I also have no idea why Mia Farrow was dressed up to look like a female impersonator. She was supposed to be an attractive gangster's moll and here she is appallingly over dressed and over haired. Maybe it was suggested she show a bit of T&A and rebelled, being the contrary b**** we know she can be.

Now, I'm not a Woody Allen fan by no means at all. I've seen bits from some of his other better movies. You don't really have to be a fan though, to know that he has made better films than this one. You just get that feeling here. It's oddly not a long movie either, and I really felt even though I knew what the story was, it really wasn't given a chance. We go back and forward from old these geezers in New York café, who reminisce over this small time talent agent (Allen), the sort you don't want to be represented by, to Allen trying to fix up one of his clients, who's cheating on his wife, with a mistress, that Woody then gets attached to. Bad news, the mistress is attached to the mob, so begins, a semi screen time hell for Allen, when he's chased by mobsters. I really didn't think the angle of these four dudes in the café telling old stories worked, if only to put a different spin on the norm of Allen's movies. Probably if you look at it that way, yeah, but I just felt the whole film was too shallow, that kind of skimmed instead of sailed. Allen has made much better movies than this. I found the film, filmed in black and white, moderately entertaining with good acting from of course, Farrow and others, one gangster dude, who was in Seagal's Out For Justice. You be judge. Still, definitely a watch for Allen fans, where you could well find short changed with this one. The glass playing act did impress me though.

For most other directors / writers / actors, "Broadway Danny Rose" would be a considerable (triple) achievement: there is terrific music, arty b & w photography, Woody (as an actor) at his most ingratiating, Mia Farrow (almost unrecognizable) at her loosest, solid supporting players, and a beautiful closing shot. However, by Woody Allen's own standards, this is a minor work in the grand total of his filmography; the main reason for that is that the story is too slight, and goes on a little too long (even though the movie is relatively short at 80 minutes). And the comedy produces smiles rather than belly laughs. Maybe it would have been more memorable if the role of Lou Canova had gone to the person that Allen, according to IMDb trivia, offered it to first: Sylvester Stallone! **1/2 out of 4.

Woody Allen plays Danny Rose a third rate Broadway talent agent whose star of the moment is Lou Canova an aging overweight former pop star who is making a comeback with a nostalgia craze.Things go wrong after Danny gets Lou a gig at the Waldorf Astoria and gets involved trying to get Lou's girlfriend Tina to show up.This is an amusing and an unusual movie...I started watching another Woody Allen film titled Another Woman but found it completely unwatchable and switched to this one which is far better. Long live Netflix streaming.Another Woman is so bad it made me wonder about the very caliber of Allen himself...how could he possibly have thought the script and story decent? Another Woman is a terribly serious dull morass of middle class relationship morality and chock full of female issues= a chick flick pseudo intellectual yuppie hell.Needless to say stay away from Another Woman but this film is decent entertainment.