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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Edmond Rostand (play)
Steve Martin (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 June 1987 (USA) more
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Roxanne dreamed of a handsome, intelligent, romantic man. C.D. Bales is two out of three... but looks aren't everything!
Plot:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins more
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Extremely effective updating of a timeless story more (55 total)

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107 min
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Bales is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 19, he asks "How many's that?", to which he is told "fourteen!". He goes on to tell another six, making 25 in total. more
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Plot holes: When Chris sees Roxanne for the second time at the restaurant, he goes to the restroom to cool off. He then escapes through the window, unseen. The window he escapes from is only about 8 inches high with a push-out closure that only pushes out about 5 to 6 inches. It is impossible for a grown man with a muscular build to get his body through such a small opening. more
Quotes:
[Roxanne Kowalski is walking behind a hedge because she is nude]
Roxanne Kowalski: Nobody had a coat?
C.D. Bales: I thought you said you didn't want a coat...
Roxanne Kowalski: Why would I not want a coat?
C.D. Bales: You said you didn't want a coat!
Roxanne Kowalski: I was being ironic.
C.D. Bales: Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.
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13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Extremely effective updating of a timeless story, 5 August 1999
Author: Steve Gruenwald (Steve G-2) from Illinois, USA

I do not routinely enjoy Steve Martin, but was extremely impressed with the sensitivity and deftness with which he played Cyrano de Bergerac in modern guise. There is nothing archaic or stilted about the script, yet it is surprisingly faithful to the character of the original play (which in turn is closely based on Cyrano's true history). Numerous scenes - including most of the best ones - are lifted almost intact from the Edmond Rostand play, but a viewer who is unfamiliar with that source probably will have no idea which scenes they are. The poetry, imaginative spark and romantic instincts of the original play are handled lovingly and with finesse. Daryl Hannah is just right as a thoroughly modern Roxanne, willingly surprised to find that there is still romance in the world. You do not have to be familiar with the source to enjoy this witty, satisfying, and very funny movie - but if you are, you will enjoy it all the more.

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