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Caught this one on TCM last night. Rather silly stage adaptation (you can even pick out where the curtains drop on act one and two). A lot of the jokes are rather dated, which is probably why this one doesn't show up on television all that often. Rosalind Russell plays her usual 'smart alec street smart dame' role that she did so well, and has to fend off numerous oddball characters interested in her naive pretty younger sister while trying to make it as a writer in New York. I lost interest in the third act, but my wife stuck with it and seemed to find the ending satisfactory (even with a cameo by the Three Stooges) and in her words 'very cute'.

Saw this at the multiplex this weekend. Laugh out loud black comedy with a whole mess of Brit actors that look sort of familiar (we had to go home and imdb the whole bunch of them, everyone except Peter Dinklage that is). The set ups seemed a bit forced in the beginning, i.e.: hallucinagenic drugs in the wrong bottle, cranky old wheelchair bound uncle, dead dad with a secret, parson who really really has to be out of here by 3:00 - like you are able to see the puppeteers hands working the strings. But once you relax into it and get familiar with the characters a bit it works like a charm. But I wonder if years from now I'll return to it, like I did with 'A Fish Called Wanda', and wonder what it was I found so sidesplittingly funny.