Play It Again, Sam (1972) on Netflix
Allan Felix, a newly divorced film critic in San Francisco, gets dating advice from his best friend's wife and from an apparition of Bogart. His attempts at romance keep failing.
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Plot summary
Allan Felix, a film critic in San Francisco, leaves a screening of Casablanca wishing he could carry himself the way Rick Blaine does. His wife Nancy has left him for a more exciting life, and as he wonders how to be more confident, Bogart appears in his room and tells him to treat women like dames. Allan's best friend Dick Christie and Dick's wife Linda urge him to date again. Linda invites her photographer's assistant, Sharon Lake, to dinner. Allan rehearses the evening in his head, then arrives so eager to seem cool that odd remarks and clumsiness drive Sharon away. Linda and Allan, both neurotic, discuss his luck with women over the phone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Play It Again, Sam (1972)
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- Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary track for True Romance that Val Kilmer's Elvis Presley, who appears to Christian Slater's character with advice and assurance, was based on the Bogart character in Play It Again, Sam.
- The Family Guy episode "Play It Again, Brian" is a homage to the film, giving Brian Griffin unrequited feelings for Lois Griffin, the wife of his best friend Peter.
- The Second City comedy troupe's television show SCTV parodied the film with Play It Again, Bob, starring Rick Moranis as Woody Allen and Dave Thomas as Bob Hope.
