I think the first plot point came when Cecilia (Mia Farrow) gets fired from her waitressing job at the restaurant, walked out on her husband, and went and saw “The Purple Rose Of Cairo” five times, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) came out of the picture and runs away with Cecilia. By taking her dancing and taking her to dinner he show her what romance can be like and how a woman should be treatedThe second plot point came when Gil Shepherd (also Jeff Daniels) was at her apartment door waiting for her so he could go talk her into telling Tom to get back into the picture so he took her to the music store and he bought a ukulele for her and kiss her that made her think that a real person did care about her it also made her realize that Tom was only a fictional chactor and that he was only doing what he was written to do....
