The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Directed by Preston Sturges
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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John and Jeremy's hapless attempts to bluff their way through a weekend at the Cleary estate by pretending to be venture capitalists from New Hampshire are oddly reminiscent of writer-director Preston Sturges' 1940s social satires, such as "Sullivan's Travels," in which a rich filmmaker decides to live among the common people to get a taste of the real world, or "The Palm Beach Story," about a flighty wife who leaves her penniless husband to hobnob with millionaires.
The immortal writer/director Preston Sturges, responsible for such trenchantly hilarious comedic romances as The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, and Unfaithfully Yours, held that sex was "Topic A." The movie output most closely associated with producer Judd Apatow The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad suggests that Apatow concurs.
Often Shepherd's dialogue is witty and dry, like something out of a 1930s comedy along the lines of Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story."
But the film, essentially a road movie, isn't as much fun along the way as such old gems as Sturges' The Palm Beach Story or Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.