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MPAA Rating - NR

Length:
    108 Minutes

Genre:
    Romance

Original Release Date:
    Feb 4, 2003

Director
    Norman Jewison

Cast
    Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, ZaSu Pitts, Reginald Owen

 
Movie Summary
This amusing romantic comedy finds Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner) as a successful gynecologist with a wife and two children. Wife Beverly (Doris Day) focuses on maintaining the household and watching the kids. The neighbors (Arlene Francis and Edward Andrews) the Fraleighs dine with the Boyers, they meet Mrs. Fraleighs father, a successful head of a Madison Avenue advertising company. Impressed with Beverly, the old man offers her $80,000 a year to pitch a new product called Happy Soap. Beverlys career takes her away from her family responsibilities and causes a series of comedic commotions for Gerald and the kids. He leaves home for work one morning and is surprised when he drives his Cadillac into a freshly dug swimming pool ordered by Beverly without his knowledge. The furious physician throws a bevy of boxes of Happy Soap into the pool, causing the house to be engulfed in suds by morning. The family maid Olivia (Zasu Pitts) is nearly driven crazy with the events and has many harried scenes of comedic frustration. Directed by Norman Jewison, this thouroughly engaging comedy was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner. Reiner provides the screenplay for the feature which turned out to be the last film appearance of Zasu Pitts. With her passing marked the end of a long and successful career as a comedic and well respected actress that began in 1917. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide


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