In Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cario, " he played a matinee idol who walks off the movie screen and into the real world with Mia Farrow.

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Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a portly college dropout who lives, at the age of thirty-five, with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow) and works for his father, unhappily, in a commercial real-estate company.

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Though I certainly don't know the whole story (I would imagine that nobody outside of Mia Farrow does), this convenient reality seems to be the basis of Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi ... and, let's be honest, that relationship is why we're watching the movie anyway.

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