The Awful Truth

Friday, January 23 - Sunday, January 25, 2015

35mm print

“Leo McCarey’s largely improvised 1937 film is one of the funniest of the screwball comedies, and also one of the most serious at heart. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are a pair of world-weary socialites who decide to drop the pretense of their wide-open marriage, but fate and Ralph Bellamy draw them together again. The awful truth is that they need each other, and McCarey, with his profound faith in monogamy, leads them gradually and hilariously to that crucial discovery. The issues deepen in a subtle, natural way: the film begins as a trifle and ends as something beautiful and affirmative. A classic.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

• Country USA
• Year 1937
• Running Time 91 minutes
• Director Leo McCarey

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