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A bible salesman teams up with 9-year-old orphan who may or may not be his daughter to form a money-making con team in Depression-era Kansas and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
What's most interesting about Paper Moon is that it has the tone and timbre of a comedy, but the setting and style of the film are somber and more reminiscent of a European art film.
From its opening monochrome close-up of nine-year-old Addie Loggins at the barely attended outdoor funeral of her mother, Peter Bogdanovich's Depression-era road movie Paper Moon (1973) is dominated by the presence of Tatum O'Neal.
The film never makes up its mind whether it wants to be an instant antique or a comment on one.
May 10, 2005
Common Sense Media
Tatum O'Neal's smoke- and booze-filled caper.
December 18, 2010
Times (UK)
Part of an incredible 1970s career run for the director Peter Bogdanovich, Paper Moon remains a high point, not just for the talent involved behind the scenes and in front of the camera, but also for Hollywood.
It is very fussy about period detail, and goes to some length to evoke the dim days of Depression America, while just about everything else is left to slide.