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Film · Paramount · 1944

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

50Watch it awake.

Funny, and a parent should know she comes home pregnant before anyone sits down.

The review

Sturges goes after the town, and the town has it coming. A girl goes to a party for soldiers and comes home married, pregnant, and unable to remember the husband's name. Betty Hutton. They are shocked and also complicit. I am not describing the party. A parent should know about the pregnancy before this goes on.

I laughed, and the laugh has a limit. Hypocrisy is the target, so the respectable voices are the ones being cut. A child is still coming into that place. I would not pass it off as a cute little war comedy. The marriage she cannot name is a mess. It is also not nothing.

Journal

Keep The Miracle of Morgan's Creek in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

The Apartment

63 instead of 50

The Apartment is still a comedy film, and it scores 63 instead of 50. What you gain is industry: The insurance office is a real workplace, with a boss, a clock, and a promotion that is a bribe.

The eight

2
Industry
No one's job matters; the town is busy being shocked.
7
Household
She is married, pregnant, and cannot name the husband.
4
Piety
The town's shock is loud, and the town helped the night happen.
5
Courage
She faces a town that joined the night and then judged her.
7
Republic
Neighbors are shocked and complicit, which is the target.
4
Temperance
A night she cannot remember sets the mess the town enjoys.
6
Truth
Without the husband's name, every tidy story is already a cover.
5
Stewardship
A child is coming into a town that prefers the scandal.

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Film · Prime Video · 1999

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10 Things I Hate About You

50Watch it awake.

The bet is the sin. The poem is the repair. Older teens, with the bet named.

The review

Someone is paid to take the difficult sister out so the younger one can be dated. That is a use of a person, and the film knows it before it decides to be charming about it. Kat is not a problem to be solved. She is a girl with a standard, some of it pride and some of it sense. The poem works because it is specific and public and ashamed. A romance that ends on a confession is better than one that ends on a wink.

The Shakespeare underneath is a harsh play. This softens it into a high school, which is a mercy, and keeps the money, which is the part you have to say out loud so a teenager does not learn that being purchased is a meet-cute.

Journal

Keep 10 Things I Hate About You in the record.