You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Directed by Frank Capra
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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It's a sort of "You Can't Take It With You" pushed beyond the bounds of believability.
Mostly Anderson just packs every frame with lots of stuff and the result turns out strange and fun, like You Can't Take It With You set to the Velvet Underground and The Ramones.
Even if this idea strikes you as immensely comic, you might well want to miss Hal Ashby's "Harold and Maude," a comedy that pretends to be as thoroughly in favor of life as "You Can't Take It With You," whereas it's quite as much about death as it appears to be.
Harold and Maude meet at one of the anonymous funerals they like to attend, fall in love while transplanting the tree, and marry on the eve of Maude's birthday.Even if this idea strikes you as immensely comic, you might well want to miss Hal Ashby's "Harold and Maude," a comedy that pretends to be as thoroughly in favor of life as "You Can't Take It With You," whereas it's quite as much about death as it appears to be.Like Harold, the movie is fascinated by the mechanics of simulated suicide — by hanging, by slashed wrists and throat, by a shot in the head, by drowning, by harakiri and, most hilariously, by immolation.