Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948, Comedy/Drama, 1h 34m
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When advertising executive Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) discovers his wife's (Myrna Loy) plan to redecorate their New York apartment, he counters with a proposal that they move to Connecticut. She agrees, and the two are soon conned into buying a house that turns out to be a complete nightmare. Construction and repair bills accumulate quickly, and Jim worries that their future hangs in the balance unless he can come up with a catchy new jingle that will sell ham.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: H. C. Potter
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Grant's hysterical facial expressions carry this movie.
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An advertising executive moves his New York family to Connecticut and involves them in a real estate swindle. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas are all great actors, but even they can't save this film from banal mediocrity. The central conflict is Jim Blandings's pursuit of an American Dream on steroids and a entitled sense of opulence, but this conflict isn't really resolved because Blandings never tones down his ambitions or does anything to earn his privileged opinion of himself. The plotline about Muriel's potential affair with Bill doesn't have any legs either because, like Jim should, we trust her implicitly. Some of the supporting characters are -- "Yep" -- mildly amusing, but even a chuckle didn't escape me. Overall, just like its more modern imitator, The Money Pit, this film is pointlessly unfunny.
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Grant and Loy make a great team in this hilarious comedy. I love it, and I recommend you see it too.
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I've never been into old B/W comedies but I saw this at the library & decided to take a chance on it & Im glad I did
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