Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Awful Truth


The Awful Truth (1937)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/]

The Gist:
Screwball comedy about a married couple accusing each other of having affairs, of getting a divorce. The odd thing about the film is that I kept waiting for the "Awful Truth" to come out, for the characters to admit to adultery or to clear their names. Yeah, didn't happen. Instead, you see that the two are plainly still in love with each other, go to great lengths at times to get back to a place where they can be together. I think the film makes more sense in the end if they both had affairs, but there was nothing in the film to suggest that it would be left so open-ended (it is Hollywood...no neat bow? Really?).

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