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Director Autumn de Wilde’s period romantic comedy drama Emma. is based on the beloved classic novel by Jane Austen. The ultra-stylish novel has everything: wit, wisdom, great characters, great dialogue, great plotting, true romance, witty […]
Director Joseph Anthony’s vivacious 1958 romantic comedy drama The Matchmaker is an engaging and amusing film version of the enduring, entertaining 1955 Thornton Wilder stage classic about the 1884 Yonkers scheming middle-aged widow matchmaker Dolly Levi […]
Director Howard Morris’s 1968 movie With Six You Get Eggroll has a lovely title for a genially amusing Doris Day comedy, in which she plays Abby McClure, a widow juggling a career as a lumberyard […]
Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a modern single 30-something who lives alone in her smart New York apartment, works in a bookshop and has lots of female friends and a Jewish grandmother who gets the matchmaker […]
Director Mark Herman’s funny-in-places 2003 comedy stars Colin Firth as sad, lovelorn British artist Colin Ware who, after being dumped by his fiancée in the UK, goes to start over in the USA where he holes up in […]
A group of New Yorker friends, busy working on their PCs and laptops, are for ever calling each other up – but never actually meeting – in writer-director Hal Salwen’s witty 1995 satirical comedy. Too busy […]
Director Gene Kelly’s gloriously tuneful and delightful 1969 movie of Jerry Herman’s 1964 Broadway magical musical, based on Thornton Wilder’s classic play The Matchmaker, won three Oscars. The 27-year-old Barbra Streisand may be far too […]