spoiler charm little depression era film set in new jersey about a woman who only way of forget her drab hard and lonely life a a waitress and only breadwinner of her household . who husband monk and danny alello and be a no good drunken bum who should know and appreciate how lucky he be to have such a sweet and care woman like cecilia and mia farrow and for a wife . try to forget her trouble cecilia spend her free time go to the neighborhood movie house and like million of american do back then in the 1930 and to get lose in a dream of good time that be project on the great sliver screen . woody allen and mia farrow be never well a a director and actress in this gem of a movie . the end of the film and even though it a bit downbeat and be just what the film need when you realize that dream be best keep to oneself and in their right place . not to try to make them real since you will only end up hurt and disenchant as well a detach from the real world by think that they be . mia farrow be sweet and touch as cecilia a she fall so madly in love with the character tom baxter and jeff daniel and of the movie the purple rise of cairo . she go to see the movie every night until tom and notice her and come to life and jump off the screen to the shock and surprise of ceilia to wine and dine and start up a romance with her . tom be charm but at the same time very naive about the real world . since everything he know about life be from the movie that he in and which be g rat where everybody be both rich and happy and and not the hard truth about depression life in america . these reality confuse tom since he never be in a movie like the world that he in now . tom doesn not know what a hooker be and when he pick up by one who take him to where she work and a bordello and tom think he at some social gathering with a number of well dolled up high class lady . tom be such a nice guy that when cecilias husband monk fight with him tom after he knock him down and with the old one two and offer monk a hand to help him up . only to be kick and punch for his noble effort . meanwhile the actor who play tom gil shepherd try to get cecilia to get tom back in the motion picture to finally end the movie so he can get back to his act career . while back at the movie house the cast of the movie be just leave strand on the screen do nothing and the audience be up in arm and want their money back . in the end tom and realizing that he not mean to be in the real world and go back into the film the purple rise of cairo and when the movie be over so be tom and ceilia romance . ceilia find the truth out when she go to the theater and see a new movie on the screen and a we see the movie top hat inter cut with cecilia and a fred astaire and ginger rogers dance and sing cheek to cheek . cecilia eye fill up with tear and then when she realize that her romance with tom be a dream but by be a dream and as short a it be and it will never be forget and will always be with her forever like the movie that she love so much . beautiful little movie that really tug on your heart string and choke you up in the end that prove what the say big gift come in little package really mean .