Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 2
Great comic direction by Leo McCarrey and memorable onscreen chemistry from stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make this screwball comedy a charmer.
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Critic Reviews: 2
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Great comic direction by Leo McCarrey and memorable onscreen chemistry from stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make this screwball comedy a charmer.
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Leo McCarey directed this classic screwball comedy in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a couple whose marriage is starting to fall apart. Jerry informs Lucy that he's taking a vacation alone in Florida; instead, he holes up with his buddies and plays poker for a week (while sitting under a sun lamp so he'll have an appropriate tan). Lucy concludes that Jerry was never in Florida just as Jerry discovers that Lucy was spending her time with Armand Duvalle (Alex
Jan 1, 1937 Wide
Mar 11, 2003
Columbia
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Leo McCarey's largely improvised 1937 film is one of the funniest of the screwball comedies, and also one of the most serious at heart.
To be frank, The Awful Truth is awfully unimportant, but it is also one of the more laughable screen comedies of 1937, a fairly good vintage year.
A joy.
...has earned its reputation as one of the most effective screwball comedies from the 1930s.
One of the best screwball comedies (of remarriage) ever made, based on the astute mise-en-scene of director Leo McCarey (who won an Oscar) and superb turns from Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as the sparrying partners.
Zappy, sophisticated screwball comedy with Grant and Dunne displaying perfect timing.
The look of love [Grant] gives co-star Irene Dunne, captured not in a close-up but a medium-wide shot, could melt anyone.
One should be rooting for Cary Grant to get the girl, which means he ought to deserve her — and if that's more or less the case here, well, it's only because the girl turns out to be no great shakes either.
A bit too easy--the equivalent of hitting a bulls-eye on the side of a barn--to make jokes at the rich 'bumpkin's' expense.
A smart screwball comedy from the 1930s that's given the Lubitsch touch by director Leo McCarey.
Its sophistication convinced the Academy that it was more than "just" a comedy and they awarded McCarey the Best Director Oscar
Episodic but sublime screwball comedy, with Grant and Dunne at their most alluring.
As pleasurable as anything a Hollywood studio and the star system ever produced.
Cary Grant ... delivers one of the greatest comic performances we'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing.
This comedy is a hilarious match-up between Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, with the wonderful Ralph Bellamy cast in his pigeonholed role as the fifth wheel.
I enjoyed this movie, great cast, good story, and it's funny.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
Cary Grant and Irene Dunn play a couple who rather impulsively decide to divorce and then spend the rest of the movie trying to undo their mistake while simultaneously undoing each other's new relationships. I'm not sure how taboo divorce was in their time, but the whole thing is played for laughs, with the two
March 19, 2010Super Reviewer
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