What: The Frank Capra film You Can't Take It with You, based on a Pulitzer-prize-winning play, has pedigree up the wazoo but wears it lightly. It's a movie about money and status and business and "isms" and munitions and Life Choices, but it's also a farce that has a whole subplot about making fireworks in the basement.
Comparable to: George Cukor's Holiday came out the same year (1938) and has a similar blend of social commentary and pratfalls.
Representative dialogue:
"I wonder how many people Grandpa's going to bring home for dinner tonight."
"I don't know --- it all depends if he goes walking in a park."
Representative quote: "Sometimes you're so beautiful it just gags me." [as spoken by Jimmy Stewart]
How to get it: Currently streaming for free with Amazon Prime. Or rent, or borrow, or buy.
Connection to previous Wreckage: The similar-in-tone Holiday, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was Rec. #288.
How to get it: Currently streaming for free with Amazon Prime. Or rent, or borrow, or buy.
Connection to previous Wreckage: The similar-in-tone Holiday, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was Rec. #288.
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