My Favorite Year (1982)

Mark-Linn Baker is a comedy writer on a variety show who is tasked with making sure the next guest, Peter O’Toole, gets to the rehearsals and the show airing sober and on time. It’s very loosely based on Mel Brooks’s experience working on Your Show of Shows with Peter O’Toole’s character being inspired by Errol Flynn. It’s tone is a bit all over, never deciding if it’s completely heart felt, slapstick, dramedy, or somewhere in between all of those. While most of the cast stick with the comedy, O’Toole manages to act through all the tones and makes for a great Flynn facsimile while also being his own character.

Oscar Nomination: Best Actor in a Leading Role