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Film · Universal · 1936

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My Man Godfrey

60Watch it awake.

The party collects a man as a prize, and he is the only competent person there.

The review

During the Depression a scatterbrained rich girl collects a forgotten man from the city dump to win a scavenger hunt, then hires him as butler. William Powell, Carole Lombard. A hit, and a house can watch it. He is more competent than the house. I laughed at them and then had to sit with where she found him.

He will not stay their servant. The dump is the bill the party will not look at. That bill is why I would keep the picture, not the hunt. A man was collected as if he were a point on a list. If the kids are in the room, the dump comes before the jokes about the rich.

Journal

Keep My Man Godfrey in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Babe

73 instead of 60

Babe is still a comedy film, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is temperance: Gentle authority.

The eight

7
Industry
Hired as butler, he is more competent than the house that found him.
5
Household
The rich house is a joke, and he will not stay on as their servant.
5
Piety
He will not stay their servant, and the party never looks at the dump.
6
Courage
Refusing their service means leaving the roof he got after the dump.
7
Republic
The city dump is the bill, and the scavenger hunt will not look at it.
5
Temperance
The hunt is what the rich want, and the dump is set against that want.
7
Truth
Treating a forgotten man as a hunt prize is a lie the dump answers.
6
Stewardship
He will not stay their servant, and the dump is still unpaid.

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Film · Prime Video · 2019

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An Arthur Thanksgiving

60Watch it awake.

A small holiday special with a real table. Fine for children.

The review

Arthur's neighborhood has always been better at ordinary friction than at myths. Thanksgiving here is cooking, guests, a snag, and a meal that still happens. That is more useful than a pageant. Gratitude that has not met a late aunt and a crowded kitchen is only a slogan.

It will not change a life. It may remind a room that the feast is the people who came, including the difficult ones. Put it on while you peel the potatoes.

Journal

Keep An Arthur Thanksgiving in the record.