Multi-Oscar winning romantic comedy that has Gable as the poor but honest hack who meets the snobbish, spoilt Colbert as she buses across the USA. He attempts to get through to her, and the byplay between the two stars is a model of skilful direction. Touching and funny in equal measure. Won five Academy Awards at the 1934 Oscars.
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SERVING SARA (2002)
Certification12 Our Rating
Sara is happily married to her wealthy rancher husband, he on the other hand has just served her with divorce papers, and the unwitting conduit for this unscrupulous action is Joe Tyler. Sara being gorgeous and Joe being disgruntled but open to persuasion means that before long the two have become a team and are heading down south to reverse the tables on Sara's dodgy hub. Serving Sara is a 'comedy' that stars Liz Hurley...a woman born to do Anything other than Act. Quite liked some bits of it m
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THE SURE THING (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
Reiner's splendidly confident, witty teenage variation on 'It Happened One Night' focuses on two students hitching across the States through rainstorms, starvation and show tunes. He's a libidinous layabout, who inadvertently dropped in to college, and she's an uptight goody-goody who believes spontaneity has its time and its place. There's plenty of mileage in this pairing, even if the movie isn't going anywhere unexpected. It now looks like a dry run for 'When Harry Met Sally' and some of the
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TWO FOR THE ROAD (1966)
CertificationPG Our Rating
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs. Charming, stylish, slightly inconsequential.
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