Sentences with phrase «classic screwball comedies like»
Not that you'll be in a particular hurry to get there, given how entertaining it is to watch the talented cast perform Potter's rat - a-tat script (the speed and complexity of the dialogue are reminiscent of classic screwball comedies like «His Girl Friday»).
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Reminiscent in tone to classic dark screwball comedies like Ruthless People, director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong) succeeds by keeping the energy high, the actors flowing naturally with off - the - cuff reactions, and by keeping the tone light, the performances spot on, and the quips lightning - fast throughout, even during the pitch - black comedy moments.
The philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the classic screwball movies like The Awful Truth (1937) and The Lady Eve (1941) «comedies of remarriage,» in which couples are rudely bounced from their Edenic connubial gardens and reunited (after a series of farcical / magical contrivances) in a spirit of wry realism: This time they know they'll live bumpily ever after.
It's like a classic Hollywood screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.