in the depression everyone have it rough . this movie follow the plight of mia farrow character through her troubled marriage to danny aiello . her only escape from an abusive and cheating husband be the movie . at one of her matinées she start to communicate with a character on screen . the character and play by jeff daniel and break character on screen and talk to mia . soon he leave the confines of the screen and take off with mia . jeff daniel and the actor now and find out that his character take the unprecedented action of step offscreen . without the jeff character to act with on screen and the other actor just stop the movie and sit around and wait for him to return . the studio that put out the movie be shock and need the character back on the screen . everyone want jeffs character . mild madness ensues . the end be very woody . it end the same way we live . with no happy end . but this be the only end that could work with this movie . it be a great movie and overlook by most and but remember fondly by those who have see it .