Film · MGM · 1940
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The Shop Around the Corner
60Watch it awake.
They're awful to each other in the shop and honest only in the letters.
The review
Christmas, a leather-goods shop in Budapest, two clerks who cannot stand each other. Stewart and Sullavan. They are also the pen pals each is falling for, which I knew going in and still felt across the counter. The work is the shop. The letters are where they manage to be decent.
A house can watch it, children included if they can follow a grown quarrel. The letters are the truth they can say. The rude talk on the floor is the smaller self. I would tell a teen that being lovely on paper does not cancel the person you were at the register. The shop is still the work the next morning. That ordinary fact is what I trusted.
Journal
Keep The Shop Around the Corner in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Groundhog Day
69 instead of 60
Groundhog Day is still a comedy film, and it scores 69 instead of 60. What you gain is republic: A whole town is his responsibility by the end.
The eight
- 8Industry
Clerks in a leather-goods shop, and the counter is the actual job.
- 5Household
Two people headed toward a life, still only sharp in person.
- 5Piety
The letters show a kinder self the shop floor never asks of them.
- 5Courage
Each risks learning the pen pal is the clerk they cannot stand.
- 4Republic
The duty is small and real: the shop, the season, the coworkers.
- 6Temperance
Snapping is the habit. The letters ask for a gentler want.
- 8Truth
The letters are the truth they can say, and the floor is not.
- 7Stewardship
You leave a shop still working and two people who can be known.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · The Shop Around the Corner · 60IMDb
