Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

13 January, 2016

The Philadelphia Story

Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine offered screening of the film The Philadelphia Story (1940).
The Philadelphia Story is a American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart and featuring Ruth Hussey. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. The socialite character of the play – performed by Hepburn in the film—was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (1904–1995), a Philadelphia socialite known for her hijinks, who married a friend of playwright Philip Barry.
Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film won two; James Stewart for Best Actor and Donald Ogden Stewart for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Plot: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type
reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
WOA’s patrons enjoyed the film and the discussion that followed.
 

Number of participants – 9.
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25 November, 2015

Thanksgiving is very soon!

At “Wednesday Movie Club” the absolutely wonderful movie was presented to all who wish to improve their language skills.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving dinner with his family.
WOA’s patrons enjoyed the film and the discussion that followed.
Number of participants – 12 persons.




18 December, 2013

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Wednesday Movie Club
Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine offered screening of the film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) with Steve Martin and John Candy starring.
Plot: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins