Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a
family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the better people. Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a ...
Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp
who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to reform Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor ...
Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette
Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg business, Colbert ...
John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is
fully exploited in the British comedy Clockwise. Cleese portrays Brian Stimpson, a perfectionist English headmaster who has been selected to make an important presentation before ...
This release from Criterion brings together every film, both features and shorts, directed by the
lesser-known French comedian Pierre Etaix, who specialized in the kind of physical comedy associated with more celebrated auteurs like Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. Included ...
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Disco) returns to the director's chair for
the first time in 13 years with this comedy set at an East Coast university and centering on the trials of four female undergrads who ...
The home-schooled son of loving, marijuana-growing hippies discovers the twisted values of the suburban status
quo in this comedy featuring Rosanna Arquette and Rachel Blanchard. Quinn Dawson (Staven Yaffee) may be your average teenager, though his parents are far from ...
Based on the novel by Dodie Smith (101 Dalmatians), director Tim Fywell's comic romance follows
17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai) and her quirky family as they attempt to make the best of their meager existence in a crumbling English castle. ...