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A fish called Wanda
(1988)
A thief sets out to seduce the lawyer of her partner in crime, a polite and nearly comatose Englishman.
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Adam’s rib
(1949)
Husband and wife lawyers clash on opposite sides of a case involving a wife accused of shooting her husband.
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Airplane!
(1980)
The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in this spoof of disaster movies.
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Arsenic and old lace
(1944)
An easygoing man discovers that his gentle aunts have a habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.
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Ball of fire
(1941)
A naïve professor, researching slang, becomes involved with a mobster’s girlfriend.
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Bell, book and candle
(1958)
A publisher slowly becomes aware that his new girlfriend is a witch.
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Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure
(1989)
High school slackers travel back in time to round up historical heavyweights for their class project.
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Born yesterday
(1950)
A corrupt millionaire junk dealer, embarrassed by his girlfriend's lack of social sophistication, arranges to have her trained in a crash course in “culture.”
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Bringing up baby
(1938)
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
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Desk set
(1957)
Two strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department.
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Down with love
(2003)
In 1962, a feminist advice author falls in love with a playboy journalist, a la Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
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High society
(1956)
In this musical remake of “The Philadelphia story,” a musician moves into a mansion near his ex-wife as she is on the verge of marrying a blander, safer man.
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His girl Friday
(1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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Holiday
(1938)
A free-thinker finds himself betrothed to the daughter of a controlling millionaire and attracted to his fiancé’s black-sheep sister.
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How to marry a millionaire
(1953)
Three models rent a penthouse with the hopes of getting rich husbands.
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I (heart) Huckabees
(2004)
Husband and wife detectives solve mysteries, but only the existential kinds.
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In the good old summertime
(1949)
Two employees of a music shop dislike each other but are in love as pen pals.
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Intolerable cruelty
(2003)
A high-powered divorce lawyer meets his match in his client’s heartless, gold-digging wife.
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It happened one night
(1934)
A runaway heiress falls in love with the reporter who is chasing her across America.
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Leatherheads
(2008)
The owner of a football team drafts a strait-laced college sensation and becomes his rival for the affections of a brassy newswoman.
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