Paper Moon
Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie.
Plot
In Gorham, Kansas, circa 1936, itinerant con man Moses Pray meets nine-year-old Addie Loggins at her mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Awards
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| author | Alvin Sargent |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Silver nugget for the best foreign film |
| contentLocation | Kansas Missouri St. Joseph |
| director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| editor | Verna Fields |
| genre | comedy-drama crime |
| keywords | bootlegger buy catch wrestling con man confidence tricks ford model 48 ford model a ford model t hillbilly kill model 48 model a model t new car on the road orphan photo booth quick change scam rum-running rural area train ticket twin brother whiskey widow |
| musicBy | Richard Portman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | Peter Bogdanovich |
| productionCompany | Saticoy Productions The Directors Company |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Kansas |