Talk:Paper Moon (film)

Poem
Is this relevent?
 * "It's only a paper moon,
 * Hanging over a cardboard sea.
 * But it wouldn't be make-believe
 * If you believed in me." --Wetman 11:33, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Plot
Where's the plot summary? 24.126.199.129 12:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Just came here looking for the very same and one still hasn't been added. TheGoonSquad (talk) 10:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

In 1936, Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal) is left in the care of a man named Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) (who may or may not be her father) to be delivered to Addie's relatives. Moses is a Bible salesman, and quite unethical. During the journey he comes to realize that Addie is more like him than he first understood. Her smoking, cursing and antics, not to mention her natural manipulative charm helps build an increasing bond between them. They become a team of grifters, working so well together that Addie wants them to stay that way. As Moses plays for a good-time girl named Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn), Addie runs his game dry. Later, Moses gets on the bad side of a bootlegger (John Hillerman) and is nearly killed by his twin-brother, who happens to be the Sheriff. Painfully pulling himself together, Moses gets Addie to her relatives, where she adamantly refuses to leave him.

-Can someone edit that? I'd have to watch it again. --Behälter (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Group
There is also an austrian group called papermoon, one popular song was "Tell me a poem". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.108.103.172 (talk) 07:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Film title etc.
The phrase 'out on a limb' comes to mind, is that what they had in mind with the title? (vis-a-vis 'out on a limn' (here meaning the crescent limn of moon). Noticed limn redirects to another article which may be just one connotation. Also,where it says 'red filter' ,maybe could link to Rose-tinted glasses ( which links to Optimism article), if that's what they meant. signedJohnsonL623 (talk) 05:56, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

WTF Podcast
Bogdanovich provided a lot of background detail to Marc Maron in a 2015 interview. I linked one example -- how he got the studio to accept the name change -- but much more could be gleaned by anyone interested. Czrisher (talk) 16:01, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Props
I'd like to suggest losing the "props" section. The material therein is all trivia unsuitable for a Wikipedia article. PacificBoy  01:38, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Plagiarism
The entire plot of this film and the book on which it was based was stolen. Just read More Work for the undertakers by Margery Allingham written in 1949, decades before paper moon. On page 131 of the penguin edition, you will find the description of a con artist who looks up obituaries and the visits the surviving relatives with a bible commissioned by the dear departed on which there is a large payment required to secure the bible. The scam is to make money from the emotional survivors by overcharging them. Sounds familiar? 2A00:23C8:8315:F501:3484:6A8E:B0C0:520E (talk) 19:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)