The Awful Truth
Part of BAMcinématek
Sat, Feb 14 at 6* and 8pm*
*Special Valentine's Day Dinner & a Movie package is sold out. Single tickets to the film still available.
Directed by Leo McCarey
With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
(1937) 91min
"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." —The Chicago Reader
The sparks, and one-liners, fly between Grant and Dunne as a husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks in this romantic comedy classic. Headed for divorce and engaged in a custody battle over their terrier, Mr. Smith, each participates in a series of flings which the other promptly manages to sabotage through successively hilarious, and harebrained, schemes. With significant portions of the film improvised by Dunne and Grant, each in their prime, The Awful Truth moves along at breakneck speed and McCarey’s direction (for which he earned an Academy Award) proves him a master of the screwball comedy, up there with Hawks and Sturges.
Time Out London on The Awful Truth
"A zappy, sophisticated screwball comedy." More