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"A divorcing couple battle over custody of their dog, and in the process find they really want each other back."@en
"A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final."@en
"A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final."
"A separated couple sabatoges each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final."@en
"This film, for which Leo McCarey won an Oscar as Best Director, is one of the greatest of all screwball comedies. The story concerns a separated couple sabotaging each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final. McCarey's comedy style is based on the principles of spontaneity and improvisation that were virtually unique at the time. No script could have provided the classic set pieces: Irene Dunne's and Ralph Bellamy's "Home on the Range" duet; Joyce Compton's skirt-and-eyebrow-raising rendition of "My Dreams Have Gone with the Wind"; Dunne's hilarious impersonation of a loudmouthed floozy; and the oft-copied situation of husband-through-front-door, lover-into-bedroom, dog-fetching-lover's hat. Cary Grant is Dunne's beleaguered husband."@en
"A comedy concerning a separated couple sabotaging each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final."@en
"Comedy in which a divorcing couple do their best to spoil each other's plans for remarriage and eventually wind up reconciling."@en
""Leo McCarey won a 1937 best Director Oscar and star Irene Dunne was nominated [...] for THE AWFUL TRUTH, one of the most captivating screwball comedies ever made. A comic battlefield presided over by two superbly matched sparring partners, THE AWFUL TRUTH also stars Cary Grant as the other half of a couple facing divorce- and fighting over custody if their beloved dog, Mr. Smith. Somewhere before the final divorce decree, however, Jerry decides he wants Lucy back, only to learn the she's marrying a country bumpkin [...]. Jerry counters with an engagement to the aristocratic Molly Lamont, sparking a sexy, sophisticated battle of wits that ranks among the wackist comedies in screen history."-- back of container."@en
"The story concerns a separated couple sabotaging each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final."@en
"A young couple discards their marriage made in heaven and go their separate ways in search of happiness."@en
""Sophisticated New Yorkers Jerry and Lucy Warriner both have cause to suspect the other of having an affair, so they decide to divorce. Although Lucy wins custody of their dog, Mr. Smith, the lack of a suitable male escort keeps her at home every night. Happily, Lucy's Aunt Patsy meets their neighbor, Oklahoma oil man Daniel Leeson, who is presentable and eligible, and introduces him to Lucy. While they are all getting acquainted, Jerry arrives for his custody visit with Mr. Smith, and his rowdy antics with the dog drive the others out of the apartment. By the end of the evening, Lucy and Daniel are infatuated. During the next few months, Jerry does everything he can to break up their engagement, but when Daniel's mother, who is adamantly against the engagement, spreads gossip about Lucy, Jerry leaps to her defense. Finally, because of a comedy of errors, Lucy and Daniel do separate, but in the meantime, Jerry has gotten involved with madcap heiress Barbara Vance. On the night before the final divorce decree, Lucy, posing as Jerry's sister, visits the Vance home, pretends to get drunk, parodies the ridiculous cabarat act of one of Jerry's former girlfriends, and behaves so obnoxiously that Jerry is forced to drive her home. Determined not to lose Jerry, Lucy tricks him up to Patsy's cabin, where they are reconciled just before the clock strikes midnight"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
"This is a comedy of divorce and remarriage; the battle of the sexes is a battle between equals. As in other screwball comedies such as Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday 'love is consumated in gags', to quote critic Molly Haskell. The love that is celebrated is difficult and anarchic rather than the secure love of the suburban dream. The film brings together McCarey's beginnings in slapstick comedy and his romanticism. The leisurely pace and loose structure reflect his liking for improvisation to the extent that the writer asked for the removal of his name from the credits."@en
"One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce."@en
"Fiction. Comédie burlesque. "Jerry Warriner et sa femme Lucy se mentent depuis longtemps sans en être dupes. Ils décident donc, d'un commun accord, de divorcer. Ils s'engagent tous les deux à d'autres personnes : Lucy avec un riche mais ennuyeux homme d'affaire d'Oklahoma qui voyage avec sa mère, Jerry avec Barbara Valance, une jeune héritière. Chacun fait de son mieux pour que les plans de l'autre échouent."--[allociné.com]. Avec Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Mary Forbes, Molly Lamont."
"Komedie over een echtpaar dat wil gaan scheiden, maar elkaar - en hun geliefde hond - toch niet kunnen missen."
"This wildly funny romp opens when the battling Warriners, Jerry and Lucy, file for divorce. The only hitch seems to be who will get custody of their beloved fox terrier, "Mr. Smith" (Asta of "The Thin Man"). Between the interlocutory and the final decree, however, Jerry decides he wants Lucy back. Unfortunately, she's now being courted by an arden new suitor from Oklahoma, Daniel Leeson. Who'll have the last bark-Jerry, Daniel, or Mr. Smith?"@en