THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985), the Woody Allen film with an impossible name, is the sweet and wildly imaginative Depression-era story of Cecilia, a clumsy waiter with head in the clouds in a very-depressed New Jersey, whose only solace in life are the movies she watches in total fascination at her local movie theater.

Cecilia (played by a perfectly-cast Mia Farrow) is treated like dirt by her unemployed, gambling and womanizing husband Monk (played with authority by Danny Aiello).

One day as she is watching